---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9916"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9916"
heading: "Fiscal controls, audits, and withholding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9916"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Community Services Block Grant Program"
---

# §9916. Fiscal controls, audits, and withholding

- (a) **Fiscal controls, procedures, audits, and inspections—**
  - (1) **In general—** A [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) that receives funds under this chapter shall—
    - (A) establish fiscal control and fund accounting procedures necessary to assure the proper disbursal of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) under this chapter, including procedures for monitoring the funds provided under this chapter;
    - (B) ensure that cost and accounting standards of the Office of Management and Budget apply to a recipient of the funds under this chapter;
    - (C) subject to [paragraph (2)](#a-2), prepare, at least every year, an audit of the expenditures of the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) of amounts received under this chapter and amounts transferred to carry out the purposes of this chapter; and
    - (D) make appropriate books, documents, papers, and records available to the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, for examination, copying, or mechanical reproduction on or off the premises of the appropriate entity upon a reasonable request for the items.
  - (2) **Audits—**
    - (A) **In general—** Subject to [subparagraph (B)](#a-2-B), each audit required by [subsection (a)(1)(C)](#a-1-C) shall be conducted by an entity independent of any [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) administering activities or services carried out under this chapter and shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
    - (B) **Single audit requirements—** Audits shall be conducted under this paragraph in the manner and to the extent provided in [chapter 75](/usc/31/chstV/ch75.md) of title 31 (commonly known as the “Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996”).
    - (C) **Submission of copies—** Within 30 days after the completion of each such audit in a [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5), the chief executive officer of the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) shall submit a copy of such audit to any [eligible entity](/usc/42/9902.md?p=1-A) that was the subject of the audit at no charge, to the legislature of the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5), and to the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4).
  - (3) **Repayments—** The [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) shall repay to the United States amounts found not to have been expended in accordance with this chapter or the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) may offset such amounts against any other amount to which the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) is or may become entitled under this chapter.
- (b) **Withholding—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) shall, after providing adequate notice and an opportunity for a hearing conducted within the affected [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5), withhold funds from any [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) that does not utilize the grant or allotment under section [9905](/usc/42/9905.md) or [9906](/usc/42/9906.md) of this title in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, including the assurances such [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) provided under [section 9908 of this title](/usc/42/9908.md).
  - (2) **Response to complaints—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) shall respond in an expeditious and speedy manner to complaints of a substantial or serious nature that a [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) has failed to use funds in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, including the assurances provided by the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) under [section 9908 of this title](/usc/42/9908.md). For purposes of this paragraph, a complaint of a failure to meet any one of the assurances provided under [section 9908 of this title](/usc/42/9908.md) that constitutes disregarding that assurance shall be considered to be a complaint of a serious nature.
  - (3) **Investigations—** Whenever the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) determines that there is a pattern of complaints of failures described in [paragraph (2)](#b-2) from any [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) in any fiscal year, the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) shall conduct an investigation of the use of funds received under this chapter by such [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 678D, as added Pub. L. 105–285, title II, § 201, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2744.)