---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3207"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3207"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3207"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Tsunami Warning and Education"
---

# §3207. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Administrator](/usc/33/3201.md?p=2) to carry out this chapter—

- (1) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, of which—
  - (A) not less than 27 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami hazard mitigation program under [section 3204 of this title](/usc/33/3204.md); and
  - (B) not less than 8 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami research program under [section 3205 of this title](/usc/33/3205.md);
- (2) $26,000,000 for fiscal year 2009, of which—
  - (A) not less than 27 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami hazard mitigation program under [section 3204 of this title](/usc/33/3204.md); and
  - (B) not less than 8 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami research program under [section 3205 of this title](/usc/33/3205.md);
- (3) $27,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, of which—
  - (A) not less than 27 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami hazard mitigation program under [section 3204 of this title](/usc/33/3204.md); and
  - (B) not less than 8 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami research program under [section 3205 of this title](/usc/33/3205.md);
- (4) $28,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, of which—
  - (A) not less than 27 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami hazard mitigation program under [section 3204 of this title](/usc/33/3204.md); and
  - (B) not less than 8 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami research program under [section 3205 of this title](/usc/33/3205.md);
- (5) $29,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, of which—
  - (A) not less than 27 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami hazard mitigation program under [section 3204 of this title](/usc/33/3204.md); and
  - (B) not less than 8 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami research program under [section 3205 of this title](/usc/33/3205.md); and
- (6) $25,800,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2021, of which—
  - (A) not less than 27 percent of the amount appropriated for each fiscal year shall be for activities conducted at the State level under the tsunami hazard mitigation program under [section 3204 of this title](/usc/33/3204.md); and
  - (B) not less than 8 percent of the amount appropriated shall be for the tsunami research program under [section 3205 of this title](/usc/33/3205.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–424, § 8, Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 2908; Pub. L. 109–479, title VIII, § 809, formerly § 808, Jan. 12, 2007, 120 Stat. 3660; renumbered § 809 and amended Pub. L. 115–25, title V, §§ 508(a)(1), 510, 512(a), Apr. 18, 2017, 131 Stat. 124, 127, 128.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 109–424 and title VIII of Pub. L. 109–479 enacted substantially identical sections. Pub. L. 109–424 was repealed by section 512(a) of Pub. L. 115–25.

### Amendments

2017—Par. (6). Pub. L. 115–25, § 510, which directed the addition of par. (6) to this section “as redesignated by section _08(a)(1)” of Pub. L. 115–25, was executed by adding par. (6) to this section as redesignated by section 508(a)(1) of Pub. L. 115–25, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.