---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1478"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1478"
heading: "Reimbursement of program expenses from sources other than appropriations; disposition of receipts"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1478"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — United States Information and Educational Exchange Programs"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Appropriations and Other Funds"
---

# §1478. Reimbursement of program expenses from sources other than appropriations; disposition of receipts


The [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1) shall, when he finds it in the public interest, request and accept reimbursement from any cooperating governmental or private source in a [foreign country](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2), or from State or local governmental institutions or private sources in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), for all or part of the expenses of any portion of the [program](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) undertaken hereunder. The amounts so received shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.


## Source credit

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title IX, § 901, 62 Stat. 13.)