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# 16 U.S.C. § 1646 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated annually such sums as may be needed to implement this subchapter. Funds appropriated under this subchapter shall remain available until expended.

(Pub. L. 95–307, § 7, June 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 356.)