---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6246"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6246"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6246"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter I — Domestic Supply Availability"
  - "Part B — Strategic Petroleum Reserve"
---

# §6246. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) such sums as are necessary to carry out this part and part D, to remain available until expended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–163, title I, § 166, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 301(a)(1), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 683.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6246, Pub. L. 94–163, title I, § 166, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 890; Pub. L. 95–70, § 4, July 21, 1977, 91 Stat. 277; Pub. L. 97–35, title X, § 1034(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 619; Pub. L. 104–306, § 1(1), Oct. 14, 1996, 110 Stat. 3810; Pub. L. 105–177, § 1(1), June 1, 1998, 112 Stat. 105; Pub. L. 106–64, § 1(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 511; Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(18), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2033; Pub. L. 108–7, div. F, title III, § 339(a)(1), Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 278, authorized appropriations for this part, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 301(a)(1), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 683.