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title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 14307 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this chapter.

(Pub. L. 104–142, § 8, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1332.)