---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6842"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6842"
heading: "Certification requirement"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6842"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Assistance to Countries with Large Populations Having Hiv/aids"
  - "Subchapter II — World Bank Aids Trust Fund"
  - "Part C — United States Financial Participation"
---

# §6842. Certification requirement

- (a) **In general—** Prior to the initial obligation or expenditure of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) appropriated pursuant to [section 6841 of this title](/usc/22/6841.md), the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall certify that adequate procedures and standards have been established to ensure accountability for and monitoring of the use of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) contributed to the Trust [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), including the cost of administering the Trust [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9).
- (b) **Transmittal of certification—** The certification required by [subsection (a)](#a), and the bases for that certification, shall be submitted by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury to Congress.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–264, title I, § 142, Aug. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 758.)