---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 53411"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "53411"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/53411"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part C — Financial Assistance Programs"
  - "Chapter 534 — Tanker Security Fleet"
---

# §53411. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated for payments under [section 53406](/usc/46/53406.md), amounts as follows, to remain available until expended:

- (1) $122,400,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2025 and 2026.
- (2) $167,600,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2027 and 2028.
- (3) $172,120,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2029 and 2030.
- (4) $176,780,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2031 and 2032.
- (5) $181,560,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2033 and 2034.
- (6) $186,460,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2035 and 2036.
- (7) $191,480,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2037 and 2038.
- (8) $196,660,000 for each of [fiscal years](/usc/46/53201.md?p=6) 2039 and 2040.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–283, div. C, title XXXV, § 3511(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4418; amended Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXV, § 3501(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3064; Pub. L. 118–159, div. C, title XXXV, § 3531(c), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2312.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2024—Pub. L. 118–159 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There is authorized to be appropriated for payments under section 53406, $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023, and $120,000,000 for fiscal years 2024 through 2035, to remain available until expended.”

2022—Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “and 2023, and $120,000,000 for fiscal years 2024 through 2035” for “through 2035”.