---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9623"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9623"
heading: "Reimbursement to local governments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9623"
units:
  - "Chapter 103 — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability"
  - "Subchapter I — Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation"
---

# §9623. Reimbursement to local governments

- (a) **Application—** Any general purpose unit of local government for a political subdivision which is affected by a [release](/usc/42/9601.md?p=22) or threatened [release](/usc/42/9601.md?p=22) at any [facility](/usc/42/9601.md?p=9) may apply to the President for reimbursement under this section.
- (b) **Reimbursement—**
  - (1) **Temporary emergency measures—** The President is authorized to reimburse local community authorities for expenses incurred (before or after October 17, 1986) in carrying out temporary emergency measures necessary to prevent or mitigate injury to human health or the [environment](/usc/42/9601.md?p=8) associated with the [release](/usc/42/9601.md?p=22) or threatened [release](/usc/42/9601.md?p=22) of any [hazardous substance](/usc/42/9601.md?p=14) or [pollutant or contaminant](/usc/42/9601.md?p=33). Such measures may include, where appropriate, security fencing to limit access, [response](/usc/42/9601.md?p=25) to fires and explosions, and other measures which require immediate [response](/usc/42/9601.md?p=25) at the local level.
  - (2) **Local funds not supplanted—** Reimbursement under this section shall not supplant local [funds](/usc/42/9601.md?p=11) normally provided for [response](/usc/42/9601.md?p=25).
- (c) **Amount—** The amount of any reimbursement to any local authority under [subsection (b)(1)](#b-1) may not exceed $25,000 for a single [response](/usc/42/9601.md?p=25). The reimbursement under this section with respect to a single [facility](/usc/42/9601.md?p=9) shall be limited to the units of local government having jurisdiction over the political subdivision in which the [facility](/usc/42/9601.md?p=9) is located.
- (d) **Procedure—** Reimbursements authorized pursuant to this section shall be in accordance with rules promulgated by the [Administrator](/usc/42/9601.md?p=2) within one year after October 17, 1986.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–510, title I, § 123, as added Pub. L. 99–499, title I, § 123(a), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1688.)