---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7642"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7642"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7642"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter IV — Noise Pollution"
---

# §7642. Authorization of appropriations


There is authorized to be appropriated such amount, not to exceed $30,000,000, as may be necessary for the purposes of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title IV, § 403, as added Pub. L. 91–604, § 14, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1710.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 403 of act July 14, 1955, as added by Pub. L. 101–549, title IV, § 401, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2589, is classified to section 7651b of this title.

Section was formerly classified to section 1858a of this title.