---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9009"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9009"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9009"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Research and Development"
---

# §9009. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter the sum of $20,000,000 for operating expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, in addition to any amounts authorized to be appropriated in the fiscal year 1981 Authorization Act pursuant to [section 7270 of this title](/usc/42/7270.md).
- (b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter the sum of $60,000,000 for operating expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982.
- (c) Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the purposes of [section 9004 of this title](/usc/42/9004.md) for plant and capital equipment as follows:

  [Project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) 81–ES–1, [ocean thermal energy conversion](/usc/42/9008.md?p=1) demonstration plants with a combined capacity of at least one hundred megawatts electrical or the [energy product equivalent](/usc/42/9008.md?p=2), sites to be determined, conceptual and preliminary design activities only $5,000,000.

- (d) Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the purposes of [section 9004 of this title](/usc/42/9004.md) for plant and capital equipment as follows:

  [Project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) 81–ES–1, [ocean thermal energy conversion](/usc/42/9008.md?p=1) demonstration plants with a combined capacity of at least one hundred megawatts electrical or the [energy product equivalent](/usc/42/9008.md?p=2), sites to be determined, conceptual and preliminary design activities only $25,000,000.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–310, § 10, July 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 946.)