---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 6307"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "6307"
heading: "Contracts with Federal Government-owned establishments and availability of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/6307"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Other Advertising and Contract Provisions"
  - "Chapter 63 — General Contract Provisions"
---

# §6307. Contracts with Federal Government-owned establishments and availability of appropriations


An order or contract placed with a Federal Government-owned establishment for work, material, or the manufacture of material pertaining to an approved project is deemed to be an obligation in the same manner that a similar order or contract placed with a commercial manufacturer or private contractor is an obligation. Appropriations remain available to pay an obligation to a Federal Government-owned establishment just as appropriations remain available to pay an obligation to a commercial manufacturer or private contractor.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3806.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 6307 | 41:23. | June 5, 1920, ch. 240, (last par. under heading “Purchase of Articles Manufactured at Government Arsenals”), 41 Stat. 975. |
|  |  | July 1, 1922, ch. 259, (1st proviso on p. 812), 42 Stat. 812. |

The words “heretofore or” are omitted as obsolete. The word “hereafter” is omitted as unnecessary because the provision is restated as permanent law rather than as part of a fiscal year appropriation.