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# 42 U.S.C. § 280k–2 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this part, such sums as may be necessary.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 399LL–2, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title IV, § 4102(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 551.)