---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10251"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10251"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10251"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy"
  - "Subchapter IV — Nuclear Waste Negotiator"
---

# §10251. Authorization of appropriations


Notwithstanding subsection (d) of [section 10222 of this title](/usc/42/10222.md), and subject to [subsection (e)](/usc/42/10222.md?p=e) of such section, there are authorized to be appropriated for expenditures from amounts in the [Waste Fund](/usc/42/10101.md?p=29) established in [subsection (c)](/usc/42/10222.md?p=c) of such section, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 411, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5041, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–248.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.