---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 646"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "646"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/646"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Exploration Program for Discovery of Minerals"
---

# §646. Authorization of appropriations


There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–701, § 6, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 701.)