---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7923"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7923"
heading: "Limitation of contractual authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7923"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Remedial Action Program"
---

# §7923. Limitation of contractual authority


The authority under this subchapter to enter into contracts or other obligations requiring the [United States](/usc/42/7911.md?p=10) to make outlays may be exercised only to the extent provided in advance in annual authorization and appropriation Acts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–604, title I, § 113, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3031.)