---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3198"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3198"
heading: "Withholding of appropriated funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3198"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter V — Animal Health and Disease Research"
---

# §3198. Withholding of appropriated funds


If the [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) determines that a [State](/usc/7/3103.md?p=16) is not entitled to receive its allocation of the annual appropriation under subsection (c) of [section 3195 of this title](/usc/7/3195.md) to carry out [subsection (a)](/usc/7/3195.md?p=a) of such section because of its failure to satisfy requirements of this subchapter or regulations issued under it, the [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) shall withhold such amount. The facts and reasons concerning the determination and withholding shall be reported to the President; and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress. If the next Congress does not direct such sum to be paid, it shall be carried to surplus.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XIV, § 1436, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1004; Pub. L. 113–79, title VII, § 7111(b)(3)(C), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 874.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–79 substituted “subsection (c) of section 3195 of this title to carry out subsection (a) of such section” for “section 3195 of this title”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.