---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2286h"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2286h"
heading: "Contract authority subject to appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2286h"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter XVII–A — Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board"
---

# §2286h. Contract authority subject to appropriations


The authority of the Board to enter into contracts under this subchapter is effective only to the extent that appropriations (including transfers of appropriations) are provided in advance for such purpose.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 319, as added Pub. L. 100–456, div. A, title XIV, § 1441(a)(1), Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 2083; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)