---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 275a"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "275a"
heading: "Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/275a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
---

# §275a. Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation; authorization of appropriations


Not to exceed $45,000 annually of the funds appropriated for rivers and harbors shall be available for the [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) and maintenance of the Permanent International [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) of the Congresses of Navigation and for the payment in amounts approved by the Chief of Engineers of the expenses of the properly accredited delegates of the United States to the meetings of the congresses and of the [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 771, title I, § 107, 62 Stat. 1174; Pub. L. 89–298, title III, § 306, Oct. 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 1094; Pub. L. 93–251, title I, § 93, Mar. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 39.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Pub. L. 93–251 substituted “$45,000” for “$22,000”.

1965—Pub. L. 89–298 substituted “$22,000” for “$5,000”.