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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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chapter_name: "INTEGRATED COASTAL AND OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEM"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 3610 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce to support the integrated oceans observations under this chapter—

(1) $48,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;

(2) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;

(3) $52,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;

(4) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; and

(5) $56,000,000 for fiscal year 2025.

(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12311, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1436; Pub. L. 116–271, title I, § 108, Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3341.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments2020—Pub. L. 116–271 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to authorization of appropriations for fiscal years 2009 to 2013.