---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 49l–1"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "49l–1"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/49l-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 4B — Federal Employment Service"
---

# §49l–1. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the [Secretary](/usc/29/49a.md?p=4) to provide funds through reimburseable[^1] agreements with the [States](/usc/29/49a.md?p=5) to operate statistical programs which are essential for development of estimates of the gross national product and other national statistical series, including those related to employment and unemployment.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “reimbursable”.

## Source credit

(June 6, 1933, ch. 49, § 14, as added Pub. L. 97–300, title VI, § 601(h), formerly title V, § 501(h), Oct. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1397; renumbered title VI, § 601(h), Pub. L. 100–628, title VII, § 712(a)(1), (2), Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3248.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1983, but with Secretary authorized to use funds appropriated for fiscal 1983 to plan for orderly implementation of section, see section 181(i) of Pub. L. 97–300, which was formerly classified to section 1591(i) of this title.