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# 7 U.S.C. § 286 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(Aug. 31, 1922, ch. 301, § 5, as added Pub. L. 94–319, § 3, June 25, 1976, 90 Stat. 710.)