---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 540a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "540a"
heading: "Availability of appropriations for attendance by military personnel at meetings and for printing survey reports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/540a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §540a. Availability of appropriations for attendance by military personnel at meetings and for printing survey reports


Appropriations in this title[^1] or appropriations made in this title[^1] in subsequent Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts shall on and after October 2, 1992, be available for expenses of attendance by military personnel at meetings in the manner authorized by [section 4110 of title 5](/usc/5/4110.md), uniforms, and allowances therefor, as authorized by law ([5 U.S.C. 5901–590](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t5/s5901–590))2), and for printing, either during a recess or session of Congress, of survey reports authorized by law, and such survey reports as may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, with illustrations, as documents of the next succeeding session of Congress.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–377, title I, Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1325.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This title, referred to in text, is title I of Pub. L. 102–377, Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1315. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.