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title: "15 U.S.C. § 649c"
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title_number: 15
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# 15 U.S.C. § 649c - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

At least one small business international program shall be established within each region of the Department of Commerce. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $1,500,000 for each fiscal year 1981, 1982, and 1983, to carry out the program established in section 649b of this title.

(Pub. L. 96–481, title III, § 303, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2332.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter.