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title: "16 U.S.C. § 760c"
description: "Studies; authorization of appropriations"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 760c - Studies; authorization of appropriations

## Text

There is authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums, not in excess of $250,000 per annum, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and objectives of sections 760a to 760c of this title.

(Aug. 25, 1950, ch. 782, § 3, 64 Stat. 474.)