---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16351"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16351"
heading: "Availability of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16351"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part I — Research Administration and Operations"
---

# §16351. Availability of funds


Funds authorized to be appropriated to the [Department](/usc/42/15801.md?p=1) under this Act or an amendment made by this Act shall remain available until expended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 987, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 910.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 109–58, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 594, known as the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which enacted this chapter and enacted, amended, and repealed numerous other sections and notes in the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 15801 of this title and Tables.