---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6518"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "6518"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/6518"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Healthy Forest Restoration"
  - "Subchapter I — Hazardous Fuel Reduction on Federal Land"
---

# §6518. Authorization of appropriations


There is authorized to be appropriated $660,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023 to carry out—

- (1) activities authorized by this subchapter; and
- (2) other hazardous fuel reduction activities of the [Secretary](/usc/16/6511.md?p=14), including making grants to [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), local governments, [Indian tribes](/usc/16/544.md?p=g), and other eligible recipients for activities authorized by law.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–148, title I, § 108, Dec. 3, 2003, 117 Stat. 1901; Pub. L. 115–334, title VIII, § 8402, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4841.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “$660,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023” for “$760,000,000 for each fiscal year” in introductory provisions.