---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 53209"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "53209"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/53209"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part C — Financial Assistance Programs"
  - "Chapter 532 — Cable Security Fleet"
---

# §53209. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated for payments under [section 53206](/usc/46/53206.md), $10,000,000 for each of the [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2021 through 2035.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. C, title XXXV, § 3521(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1997.)