---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8726"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8726"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8726"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 87 — Physical Development of National Capital Region"
  - "Subchapter III — Planning Process"
---

# §8726. Authorization of appropriations


Amounts necessary to carry out this subchapter may be appropriated from money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and from any appropriate appropriation law, except the annual District of Columbia Appropriation Act.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1224.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8726 | 40:71i. | June 6, 1924, ch. 270, § 10, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, § 1, 66 Stat. 791. |

The words “any existing provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding” are omitted as unnecessary.