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title: "15 U.S.C. § 2471"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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chapter_name: "NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 2471 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter, not to exceed $6,250,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the subsequent transition period ending September 30, 1976; not to exceed $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977; and not to exceed $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978. Funds appropriated for any fiscal year shall remain available for obligation until expended.

(Pub. L. 94–136, title VII, § 701, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 743.)