---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8840"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8840"
heading: "Termination of authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8840"
units:
  - "Chapter 96 — Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels"
  - "Subchapter II — Municipal Waste Biomass Energy"
---

# §8840. Termination of authorities


No [financial assistance](/usc/42/8802.md?p=11-A) may be committed to or made under this subchapter after September 30, 1984. This section shall not be construed to affect the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Energy to spend funds after such date pursuant to any award of [financial assistance](/usc/42/8802.md?p=11-A) made on or before that date.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–294, title II, § 240, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 705.)