---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8905"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8905"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8905"
units:
  - "Chapter 97 — Acid Precipitation Program and Carbon Dioxide Study"
  - "Subchapter I — Acid Precipitation"
---

# §8905. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) For the purpose of establishing the [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) and developing the comprehensive plan under [section 8903 of this title](/usc/42/8903.md) there is authorized to be appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fiscal year 1981 the sum of $5,000,000 to remain available until expended.
- (b) Authorizations of appropriations for the nine fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the comprehensive plan is submitted in final form under [section 8903(c)(3) of this title](/usc/42/8903.md?p=c-3), for purposes of carrying out the comprehensive ten-year program established by [section 8902(a) of this title](/usc/42/8902.md?p=a) and implementing the comprehensive plan under sections [8903](/usc/42/8903.md) and [8904](/usc/42/8904.md) of this title, shall be provided on an annual basis in authorization Acts hereafter enacted; but the total sum of dollars authorized for such purposes for such nine fiscal years shall not exceed $45,000,000 except as may be specifically provided by reference to this paragraph in the authorization Acts involved.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–294, title VII, § 706, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 773.)