---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8461"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8461"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8461"
units:
  - "Chapter 92 — Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use"
  - "Subchapter VII — Administration and Enforcement"
  - "Part F — Appropriations Authorization"
---

# §8461. Authorization of appropriations


There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/8302.md?p=a-1) for fiscal year 1979 $11,900,000, to carry out the provisions of this chapter (other than provisions for which an appropriations authorization is otherwise expressly provided in this chapter) and [section 792 of title 15](/usc/15/792.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 751, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3344.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–620, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3289, known as the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 8301 of this title and Tables.