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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters

§ 518. Authorization of appropriations

Statutory text

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 76–409 § 8 · 54 Stat. 497

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 518

    (June 21, 1940, ch. 409, § 8, 54 Stat. 500.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 21, 1940, ch. 409, § 8, 54 Stat. 500.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. appropriation authorized There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Alteration of Bridges

Pub. L. 108–90, title II, , 117 Stat. 1144, provided in part: “That in fiscal year 2004 and thereafter, funds for bridge alteration projects conducted pursuant to the Act of (33 U.S.C. 511 et seq.) shall be available for such projects only to the extent that the steel, iron, and manufactured products used in such projects are produced in the United States, unless contrary to law or international agreement, or unless the Commandant of the Coast Guard determines such action to be inconsistent with the public interest or the cost unreasonable.”

Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation act:

Pub. L. 108–7, div. I, title I, , 117 Stat. 389.

Credits

(June 21, 1940, ch. 409, § 8, 54 Stat. 500.)

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