---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16712"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16712"
heading: "Repealed or Omitted"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16712"
units:
  - "Chapter 150 — National Aeronautics and Space Programs, 2005"
  - "Subchapter IV — Aeronautics"
  - "Part A — Governmental Interest in Aeronautics Research and Development"
---

# [§16712. Repealed or Omitted — repealed]



## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, Pub. L. 110–69, title II, § 2002, Aug. 9, 2007, 121 Stat. 583, which related to aeronautics research and development program, was repealed in part and omitted in part. Subsec. (b) was repealed and reenacted as section 40103 of Title 51, National and Commercial Space Programs, by Pub. L. 111–314, §§ 3, 6, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3328, 3444, which Act enacted Title 51. Subsec. (a), which provided a sense of Congress, was omitted from the Code following the enactment of Title 51.