Title 16ConservationRelease 119-73

§728 Expenditures

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 8— - UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE › § 728

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may spend money for buildings, equipment, upkeep, repairs, improvements, and staff pay at headquarters or elsewhere when Congress provides funds.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §728

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make such expenditures for construction, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this chapter and as may be provided for by Congress from time to time.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification As originally enacted, this section contained an additional paragraph which appropriated a sum half of which was to be available, until expended, for the expenditures mentioned herein.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

of Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Commerce to Secretary of the Interior, by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 723 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 728

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73