42 USC § 4370f - Availability of funds after expiration of period for liquidating obligations

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title: "42 USC § 4370f - Availability of funds after expiration of period for liquidating obligations"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "4370f"
section_name: "Availability of funds after expiration of period for liquidating obligations"
chapter_number: 55
chapter_name: "NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(1) [title III], Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–44.)"
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# § 4370f. Availability of funds after expiration of period for liquidating obligations

For fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the obligated balances of sums available in multiple-year appropriations accounts shall remain available through the seventh fiscal year after their period of availability has expired for liquidating obligations made during the period of availability.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(1) [title III], Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–44.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.