---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17357"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17357"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17357"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter VIII — International Energy Programs"
  - "Part B — International Clean Energy Foundation"
---

# §17357. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **Authorization of appropriations—** To carry out this part, there are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 2013.
- (b) **Allocation of funds—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Foundation](/usc/42/17351.md?p=3) may allocate or transfer to any [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the United States Government any of the funds available for carrying out this part. Such funds shall be available for obligation and expenditure for the purposes for which the funds were authorized, in accordance with authority granted in this part or under authority governing the activities of the United States Government [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) to which such funds are allocated or transferred.
  - (2) **Notification—** The [Foundation](/usc/42/17351.md?p=3) shall notify the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/42/17321.md?p=1) not less than 15 days prior to an [allocation](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=2) or transfer of funds pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#b-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title IX, § 927, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1738.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.