---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7270"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7270"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7270"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part C — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §7270. Authorization of appropriations


Appropriations to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to annual authorization.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VI, § 660, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 604.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–91, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 565, known as the Department of Energy Organization Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7101 of this title and Tables.