Authorization of appropriations

An amount equal to all revenues accruing each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year 1975) from any tax imposed on specified articles by sections 4161(b) and 4181 of title 26, shall, subject to the exemptions in section 4182 of such title, be covered into the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund in the Treasury (hereinafter referred to as the “fund”) and is authorized to be appropriated and made available until expended to carry out the purposes of this chapter. So much of such appropriations apportioned to any State for any fiscal year as remains unexpended at the close thereof is authorized to be made available for expenditure in that State until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Any amount apportioned to any State under the provisions of this chapter which is unexpended or unobligated at the end of the period during which it is available for expenditure on any project is authorized to be made available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act [ 16 U.S.C. 715 et seq.].

( Sept. 2, 1937, ch. 899, § 3 , 50 Stat. 917 ; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939 , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433 ; Pub. L. 91–503, title I, § 101 , Oct. 23, 1970 , 84 Stat. 1097 ; Pub. L. 92–558, title I, § 101(a) , Oct. 25, 1972 , 86 Stat. 1172 ; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2 , Oct. 22, 1986 , 100 Stat. 2095 ; Pub. L. 101–233, § 7(a)(1) , Dec. 13, 1989 , 103 Stat. 1974 ; Pub. L. 106–553, § 1(a)(2) [title IX, § 902(d)] , Dec. 21, 2000 , 114 Stat. 2762 , 2762A–120; Pub. L. 109–75, § 1 , Sept. 29, 2005 , 119 Stat. 2034 ; Pub. L. 114–113, div. G, title I, § 120 , Dec. 18, 2015 , 129 Stat. 2552 ; Pub. L. 119–40, § 2 , Nov. 25, 2025 , 139 Stat. 662 .)