Section 205.21 - When may clearance patterns be used?(a) A State may develop a clearance pattern for:(1) An individual Federal assistance program;(2) A logical group of Federal assistance programs that have the same disbursement method and type of payee;(4) A specific type of payment, such as payroll or vendor payments; or(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.(b) As set forth in § 205.9 , a Treasury-State agreement must include the method a State uses to develop and maintain clearance patterns.