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# 20 U.S.C. § 4711 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the fund $40,000,000 to carry out this chapter.

(Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title XIV, § 1412, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 4012.)