---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 4704"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "4704"
heading: "Allocation of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/4704"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart C — Employee Performance"
  - "Chapter 47 — Personnel Research Programs and Demonstration Projects"
---

# §4704. Allocation of funds


[Funds](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) appropriated to the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management for the purpose of this chapter may be allocated by the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) to any [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) conducting [demonstration projects](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-4) or assisting the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) in conducting such projects. [Funds](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) so allocated shall remain available for such period as may be specified in appropriation Acts. No contract shall be entered into under this chapter unless the contract has been provided for in advance in appropriation Acts.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title VI, § 601(a), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1188.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.