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Title 51 — National and Commercial Space ProgramsRelease 119-73not60

§20140 Appropriations

Title 51 › Subtitle Subtitle II— General Program and Policy Provisions › Chapter 201— NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE PROGRAM › Subchapter III— GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 20140

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money may be provided as needed to carry out this chapter, but those funds cannot be used to buy or seize land or to pay for any single capital item (like buying or expanding a plant or facility) that costs more than $250,000. Money given for building projects or for research and development stays available until it is all spent. Funds meant for new construction can instead be used for emergency repairs to existing facilities if a major breakdown, accident, or other event makes them inoperative and the Administrator says repairs are more urgent. Unless an earlier date is set, the authority to provide these funds ends at the close of the third fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the authorization was enacted, but only for amounts that have not actually been provided by then.

Full Legal Text

Title 51, §20140

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(a)(1)There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this chapter, except that nothing in this chapter shall authorize the appropriation of any amount for—
(A)the acquisition or condemnation of any real property; or
(B)any other item of a capital nature (such as plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion) which exceeds $250,000.
(2)Sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for the construction of facilities, or for research and development activities, shall remain available until expended.
(b)Any funds appropriated for the construction of facilities may be used for emergency repairs of existing facilities when such existing facilities are made inoperative by major breakdown, accident, or other circumstances and such repairs are deemed by the Administrator to be of greater urgency than the construction of new facilities.
(c)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authorization of any appropriation to the Administration shall expire (unless an earlier expiration is specifically provided) at the close of the third fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the authorization was enacted, to the extent that such appropriation has not theretofore actually been made.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2014042 U.S.C. 2459.Pub. L. 85–568, title III, § 310, formerly § 307, July 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 438; Pub. L. 88–113, § 6, Sept. 6, 1963, 77 Stat. 144; renumbered § 308, Pub. L. 94–464, § 3, Oct. 8, 1976, 90 Stat. 1988; renumbered § 309, Pub. L. 96–48, § 6(b)(1), Aug. 8, 1979, 93 Stat. 348; renumbered § 310, Pub. L. 106–391, title III, § 324(a)(1), Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1599.

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Citation

51 U.S.C. § 20140

Title 51 — National and Commercial Space Programs

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60