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# 29 U.S.C. § 678 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this chapter for each fiscal year such sums as the Congress shall deem necessary.

(Pub. L. 91–596, § 33, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1620.)