---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 576b"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "576b"
heading: "Lease authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/576b"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §576b. Lease authority


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may lease space available in buildings for which funding for construction or purchase was provided from the revolving fund established by the 1st section of the Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1954 ([33 U.S.C. 576](/usc/33/576.md); 67 Stat. 199), under such terms and conditions as are acceptable to the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2). The proceeds from such leases shall be credited to the revolving fund for the purposes set forth in such Act.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 213, Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3684.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1954, referred to in text, is act July 27, 1953, ch. 245, 67 Stat. 197. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.