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# 42 U.S.C. § 11050 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.

(Pub. L. 99–499, title III, § 330, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1758.)