---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1592l"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1592l"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1592l"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Housing of Persons Engaged in National Defense"
  - "Subchapter IX — Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services"
---

# §1592l. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated—

- (a) such sums, not exceeding $100,000,000, as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions and purposes of this subchapter relating to community facilities and services in critical defense housing areas; and
- (b) such sums, not exceeding $100,000,000, as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions and purposes of this subchapter relating to housing in critical defense housing areas.

## Source credit

(Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, title III, § 313, 65 Stat. 308; July 14, 1952, ch. 723, § 4, 66 Stat. 602.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1952—Act July 14, 1952, increased appropriation authorization in subsec. (a) from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000 and in subsec. (b) from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000.