Volume 86
Public Law 92–361
To amend section 125 of title 23. United States Code, relating to highway emergency relief to authorize additional appropriations necessary as a result of recent Hoods and other disasters.
Approved August 3, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 125 of title 23. United States Code, relating to highway emergency relief to authorize additional appropriations necessary as a result of recent Hoods and other disasters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That clause (1) of
Highway emergency relief.
Appropriation authorization.
the second sentence of subsection (a) of section 125 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “(1) Not more than $50,000,000 is authorized to be expended in any fiscal year ending before July 1, 1972, and not more than $100,000,000 is authorized to be expended in any one fiscal year commencing after June 30, 1972, to carry out the provisions of this section and an additional amount not to exceed $100,000,000 is further authorized to be expended in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, to carry out the provisions of this section, except that, if in any fiscal year the total of all expenditures under this section is less than the amount authorized to be expended in such fiscal year, the unexpended balance of such amount shall remain available for expenditure during the next two succeeding fiscal years in addition to amounts otherwise available to carry out this section in such years, and”.
Approved August 3, 1972.