---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9818"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9818"
heading: "Coordination and eligibility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9818"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Community Services Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Community Economic Development"
  - "Part D — Supportive Programs and Activities"
---

# §9818. Coordination and eligibility

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall take all necessary and appropriate steps to encourage Federal departments and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) and local governments to make grants, provide technical assistance, enter into contracts, and generally support and cooperate with community development [corporations](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) and local cooperative associations.
- (b) Eligibility for assistance under other Federal programs shall not be denied to any applicant on the ground that it is a community development [corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) or any other entity assisted under this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 629, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 497.)