---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 4106"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "4106"
heading: "Funding and additional authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/4106"
units:
  - "Chapter 54 — Commercial Engagement Through Ocean Technology"
---

# §4106. Funding and additional authorities

- (a) **Funding—** The [Administrator](/usc/33/4101.md?p=2) shall carry out this chapter using existing amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to the [Administration](/usc/33/4101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Additional authorities—** In carrying out this chapter, the [Administrator](/usc/33/4101.md?p=2) may—
  - (1) enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, and other transactions with any domestic or foreign government;
  - (2) notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](/usc/31/1342.md), accept donations and voluntary and uncompensated services;
  - (3) accept funds from other Federal departments and agencies;
  - (4) utilize the National Oceanographic Partnership Program established under chapter 665 of title 10 to accept funds from other Federal departments and agencies, to accept donations, and to enter into contracts and award grants;
  - (5) under an agreement entered into under [paragraph (1)](#b-1), transfer funds appropriated to carry our this chapter to any organization; and
  - (6) use, with their consent, with or without reimbursement, and subject to the availability of appropriations, the land, services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of—
    - (A) any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States;
    - (B) any State or local government or tribal government; or
    - (C) any foreign government or international organization.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–394, § 7, Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5286.)