---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 939"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "939"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/939"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Mine Safety and Health"
  - "Subchapter IV — Black Lung Benefits"
  - "Part C"
---

# §939. Authorization of appropriations


There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/30/802.md?p=a) of Labor such sums as may be necessary to carry out his responsibilities under this subchapter. Such sums shall remain available until expended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–173, title IV, § 429, as added Pub. L. 92–303, § 5(8), May 19, 1972, 86 Stat. 156.)