---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16321"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16321"
heading: "Facility for Rare Isotope Beams"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16321"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part G — Science"
---

# §16321. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall construct and operate a Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall commence [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) no later than September 30, 2008.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall not spend more than $1,100,000,000 in Federal funds for all activities associated with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, prior to operation of the Accelerator.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 981, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 907; Pub. L. 115–246, title III, § 308(b), Sept. 28, 2018, 132 Stat. 3150.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–246 substituted “Facility for Rare Isotope Beams” for “Rare Isotope Accelerator” in section catchline and in subsecs. (a) and (b).