42 USC § 17791 - Repealed or Omitted

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s17791"
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title: "42 USC § 17791 - Repealed or Omitted"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "17791"
section_name: "Repealed or Omitted"
chapter_number: 155
chapter_name: "AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACTIVITIES"
subchapter_number: "VII"
subchapter_name: "NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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status: "repealed"
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# § 17791. Repealed or Omitted

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, , , , which reaffirmed policy on surveying near-Earth asteroids and comets, was repealed in part and omitted in part. Subsec. (a) was repealed and reenacted as , National and Commercial Space Programs, by , §§ 3, 6, , , 3444, which Act enacted Title 51. Subsec. (b), which provided sense of Congress regarding the policy and its benefits, was omitted from the Code following the enactment of Title 51.