---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3708"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3708"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3708"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring"
---

# §3708. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **NOAA—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out the purposes of this chapter—
  - (1) $20,500,000 for fiscal year 2023;
  - (2) $22,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
  - (3) $24,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;
  - (4) $26,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; and
  - (5) $28,000,000 for fiscal year 2027.
- (b) **NSF—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Science Foundation to carry out the purposes of this chapter, $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2023 through 2027.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12409, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1441; Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title VI, § 10649, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1681.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10649(1), substituted pars. (1) to (5) for former pars. (1) to (4) which authorized appropriations for fiscal years 2009 to 2012.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–167, § 10649(2), substituted “chapter, $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2023 through 2027.” for “chapter—” and pars. (1) to (4) which authorized appropriations for fiscal years 2009 to 2012.