---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 18233b"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "18233b"
heading: "Authority to carry out small projects with operation and maintenance funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/18233b"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part V — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 1803 — Facilities for Reserve Components"
---

# §18233b. Authority to carry out small projects with operation and maintenance funds


Under such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of Defense may prescribe, the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) may expend, from appropriations available for operation and maintenance, amounts necessary to carry out any project authorized under [section 18233(a) of this title](/usc/10/18233.md?p=a) that costs not more than the amount specified in [section 2805(c) of this title](/usc/10/2805.md?p=c).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2808(b), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2125; amended Pub. L. 112–81, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2802(c)(4), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1685.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2011—Pub. L. 112–81 substituted “not more than the amount specified in section 2805(c) of this title.” for “not more than—

“(1) the amount specified in section 2805(c)(1)(A) of this title, in the case of a project intended solely to correct a deficiency that is life-threatening, health-threatening, or safety-threatening; or

“(2) the amount specified in section 2805(c)(1)(B) of this title, in the case of any other project.”