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# 42 U.S.C. § 17792 - Transferred

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section, Pub. L. 110–422, title VIII, § 802, Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4803, which related to Congressional findings regarding threat of collision of potentially hazardous near-Earth object with Earth, was transferred and is set out as a note under section 71101 of Title 51, National and Commercial Space Programs.