---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2204"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2204"
heading: "Funding and administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2204"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Emergency Conservation Program"
---

# §2204. Funding and administration

- (a) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, to remain available until expended.
- (b) **Set-aside for fencing—** Of the amounts made available under [subsection (a)](#a) for a fiscal year, 25 percent shall be set aside until April 1 of that fiscal year for the repair or replacement of fencing.
- (c) **Use of Commodity Credit Corporation—** In implementing this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may use the facilities, services, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
- (d) **Limitation—** The Commodity Credit Corporation shall not make any expenditures to carry out the provisions of this chapter unless funds specifically appropriated for such purpose have been transferred to it.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–334, title IV, § 404, Aug. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 434; Pub. L. 115–334, title II, § 2403(a)(2)(A), (e), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4571, 4572.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

2018—Pub. L. 115–334, § 2403(e), inserted section catchline; designated first, third, and fourth sentences as subsecs. (a), (c), and (d), respectively, and inserted headings; in subsec. (a), inserted “, to remain available until expended” before period at end; in subsec. (c), substituted “In implementing this chapter” for “In implementing the provisions of this chapter”; in subsec. (d), substituted “The Commodity Credit Corporation” for “The Corporation”; added subsec. (b); and struck out former second sentence which read as follows: “Such funds shall remain available until expended.”

Pub. L. 115–334, § 2403(a)(2)(A), substituted “Secretary” for“Secretary of Agriculture” in third sentence.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 406 of Pub. L. 95–334, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.