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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 3708 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

(a) NOAA There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out the purposes of this chapter—

(1) $20,500,000 for fiscal year 2023;

(2) $22,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;

(3) $24,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;

(4) $26,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; and

(5) $28,000,000 for fiscal year 2027.

(b) NSF There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Science Foundation to carry out the purposes of this chapter, $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2023 through 2027.

(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12409, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1441; Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title VI, § 10649, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1681.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments2022—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10649(1), substituted pars. (1) to (5) for former pars. (1) to (4) which authorized appropriations for fiscal years 2009 to 2012. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10649(2), substituted “chapter, $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2023 through 2027.” for “chapter—” and pars. (1) to (4) which authorized appropriations for fiscal years 2009 to 2012.