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# 16 U.S.C. § 778c - 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.

(Pub. L. 85–342, § 4, Mar. 15, 1958, 72 Stat. 35.)