---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8278"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8278"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8278"
units:
  - "Chapter 91 — National Energy Conservation Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Federal Energy Initiative"
  - "Part C — Federal Photovoltaic Utilization"
---

# §8278. Authorization of appropriations


For the purposes of this part, there is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/8241.md?p=6) not to exceed $98,000,000 for the period beginning October 1, 1978, and ending September 30, 1981.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–619, title V, § 569, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3282.)