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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 78 — National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

§ 6507. Authorization of appropriations; Federal financial assistance for increased municipal services and facilities in communities located on or near reserve resulting from authorized exploration and study activities

Statutory text

(a)

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

(b)

If the Secretary of the Interior determines that there is an immediate and substantial increase in the need for municipal services and facilities in communities located on or near the reserve as a direct result of the exploration and study activities authorized by this chapter and that an unfair and excessive financial burden will be incurred by such communities as a result of the increased need for such services and facilities, then he is authorized to assist such communities in meeting the costs of providing increased municipal services and facilities. The Secretary of the Interior shall carry out the provisions of this section through existing Federal programs and he shall consult with the heads of the departments or agencies of the Federal Government concerned with the type of services and facilities for which financial assistance is being made available.

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. Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976

    Pub. L. 94–258 title I § 108 · 90 Stat. 303

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6507

    Pub. L. 94–258, title I, § 108, formerly § 107, Apr. 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 306

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 94–258, title I, § 108, formerly § 107, Apr. 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 306

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 107. authorization fob appropriations (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. (b) If the Secretary of the Interior determines that there is an immediate and substantial increase in the need for municipal services and facilities in communities located on or near the reserve as a direct result of the exploration and study activities authorized by this title and that an unfair and excessive financial burden will be incurred by such communities as a result of the increased need for such services and facilities, then he is authorized to assist such communities in meeting the costs of providing increased municipal services and facilities. The Secretary of the Interior shall carry out the provisions of this section through existing Federal programs and he shall consult with the heads of the departments or agencies of the Federal Government concerned with the type of services and facilities for which financial assistance is being made available.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

1976–2005 · 2 acts
  1. 1976Pub. L. 94–258, title I, § 108, formerly § 107, , 90 Stat. 306
  2. 2005renumbered § 108, Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 347(a)(1), , 119 Stat. 704.
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(Pub. L. 94–258, title I, § 108, formerly § 107, , 90 Stat. 306; renumbered § 108, Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 347(a)(1), , 119 Stat. 704.)

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