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# 42 U.S.C. § 9708 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this chapter such sums as may be authorized by legislation hereafter enacted.

(Pub. L. 96–567, § 9, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3333.)