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# 16 U.S.C. § 470aaa–11 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

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

(Pub. L. 111–11, title VI, § 6312, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1177.)