---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6507"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6507"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations; Federal financial assistance for increased municipal services and facilities in communities located on or near reserve resulting from authorized exploration and study activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6507"
units:
  - "Chapter 78 — National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska"
---

# §6507. Authorization of appropriations; Federal financial assistance for increased municipal services and facilities in communities located on or near reserve resulting from authorized exploration and study activities

- (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
- (b) If the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Interior determines that there is an immediate and substantial increase in the need for municipal services and facilities in communities located on or near the reserve as a direct result of the exploration and study activities authorized by this chapter and that an unfair and excessive financial burden will be incurred by such communities as a result of the increased need for such services and facilities, then he is authorized to assist such communities in meeting the costs of providing increased municipal services and facilities. The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Interior shall carry out the provisions of this section through existing Federal programs and he shall consult with the heads of the departments or [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the Federal Government concerned with the type of services and facilities for which financial assistance is being made available.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–258, title I, § 108, formerly § 107, Apr. 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 306; renumbered § 108, Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 347(a)(1), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 704.)