{"data":{"id":"us/31-cfr-205.21","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"31 CFR 205.21","heading":"When may clearance patterns be used?","body":"(a) A State may develop a clearance pattern for:\n(1) An individual Federal assistance program;\n(2) A logical group of Federal assistance programs that have the same disbursement method and type of payee;\n(3) A bank account;\n(4) A specific type of payment, such as payroll or vendor payments; or\n(5) Anything that is agreed upon by us and a State. If a clearance pattern is used for multiple Federal assistance programs, a State must apply the clearance pattern separately to each Federal assistance program when scheduling funds transfers or calculating interest.\n(b) As set forth in § 205.9, a Treasury-State agreement must include the method a State uses to develop and maintain clearance patterns.","path":["Title 31—Money and Finance: Treasury","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Money and Finance","CHAPTER II—FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY","SUBCHAPTER A—BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE","PART 205—RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR EFFICIENT FEDERAL-STATE FUNDS TRANSFERS","Subpart A—Rules Applicable to Federal Assistance Programs Included in a Treasury-State Agreement"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-31.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:25Z","sha256":"fffbda34d1c771b71cf3ca46c112aaab2d68a5a470f1bb7dafed47b624b5fa2f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/31-cfr-205.20","next":"us/31-cfr-205.22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}