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title: "15 U.S.C. § 205k"
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title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 205k - Authorization of appropriations; availability

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter. Appropriations to carry out the provisions of this subchapter may remain available for obligation and expenditure for such period or periods as may be specified in the Acts making such appropriations.

(Pub. L. 94–168, § 13, formerly § 12, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1012, renumbered § 13, Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5164(c), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1452.)