---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 556"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "556"
heading: "Incidental transfers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/556"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XII — Transition"
  - "Part B — Transitional Provisions"
---

# §556. Incidental transfers


The [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), is authorized and directed to make such additional incidental dispositions of [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15), [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3), and liabilities held, used, arising from, available, or to be made available, in connection with the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) transferred by this chapter, as the [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) may determine necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1516, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.