§590f — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Congress may provide whatever money is needed to carry out these programs. Money set aside to grow or buy nursery stock, whether kept by a federal agency or passed to cooperating States, can be spent for no more than three fiscal years. A "Conservation Technical Assistance Fund" is created in the U.S. Treasury and run by the Secretary of Agriculture. It will get fees collected under section 590c(4), plus late payments, interest, and amounts allowed under 31 U.S.C. 3717. Money in the Fund can be spent only if Congress approves it in advance, must pay costs under this chapter, and stays available until spent.

Title 16, §590f

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(a)There is authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this chapter such sums as Congress may from time to time determine to be necessary. Appropriations for carrying out this chapter allocated for the production or procurement of nursery stock by any Federal agency, or funds appropriated to any Federal agency for allocation to cooperating States for the production or procurement of nursery stock, shall remain available for expenditure for not more than three fiscal years.

(b)(1)There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the “Conservation Technical Assistance Fund” (referred to in this subsection as the “Fund”), to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

(2)An amount equal to the amounts collected as fees under section 590c(4) of this title and late payments, interest, and such other amounts as are authorized to be collected pursuant to section 3717 of title 31 shall be deposited in the Fund.

(3)Amounts in the Fund shall—

(A)only be available to the extent and in the amount provided in advance in appropriations Acts;

(B)be used for the costs of carrying out this chapter; and

(C)remain available until expended.

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Amendments

2013—Pub. L. 113–67 inserted section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, substituted “There is authorized” for “There are hereby authorized”, and added subsec. (b). 1944—Act Sept. 21, 1944, inserted second par.

§590f Authorization of appropriations and conservation technical assistance funds

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Title 16, §590f

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