51 U.S.C. § 20140 — Appropriations
submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 111-314 to r/title-51-NATIONAL-AND-COMMERCIAL-SPACE-PROGRAMS · 209 words · no verdicts yet
Congress may fund this chapter, but not land purchases or capital items over $250,000. Construction and research funds stay available until spent. Unused authorizations expire at the end of the third fiscal year after Congress approved them.
(a) Authorization. (1) Congress may appropriate whatever money is needed to carry out this chapter, but this chapter does not authorize spending on (A) buying or condemning real property; or (B) any other capital item — like building or expanding a plant or facility — that costs more than $250,000. (2) Money appropriated for building facilities or for research and development stays available until it is spent.
(b) Use of Funds for Emergency Repairs of Existing Facilities. Money appropriated to build facilities can instead be used for emergency repairs of existing facilities, if those facilities stop working because of a major breakdown, accident, or similar event, and the Administrator* decides the repairs are more urgent than new construction.
(c) Termination. Unless a law sets an earlier expiration, any authorization to appropriate money to the Administration* expires at the end of the third fiscal year after the year Congress passed it, to the extent the money was never actually appropriated.
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this chapter, except that nothing in this chapter shall authorize the appropriation of any amount for—
the acquisition or condemnation of any real property; or
any other item of a capital nature (such as plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion) which exceeds $250,000.
Sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for the construction of facilities, or for research and development activities, shall remain available until expended.
Any funds appropriated for the construction of facilities may be used for emergency repairs of existing facilities when such existing facilities are made inoperative by major breakdown, accident, or other circumstances and such repairs are deemed by the Administrator* to be of greater urgency than the construction of new facilities.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authorization of any appropriation to the Administration* shall expire (unless an earlier expiration is specifically provided) at the close of the third fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the authorization was enacted, to the extent that such appropriation has not theretofore actually been made.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3347.)
- 2010Enacted · Pub. L. 111-314 · 124 Stat. 3347
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