---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 275a"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "275a"
heading: "Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/275a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
---

# §275a. Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation; authorization of appropriations


Not to exceed $45,000 annually of the [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) appropriated for rivers and harbors shall be available for the support and maintenance of the Permanent International [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) of the Congresses of Navigation and for the payment in amounts approved by the Chief of Engineers of the expenses of the properly accredited delegates of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to the meetings of the congresses and of the [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 771, title I, § 107, 62 Stat. 1174; Pub. L. 89–298, title III, § 306, Oct. 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 1094; Pub. L. 93–251, title I, § 93, Mar. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 39.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Pub. L. 93–251 substituted “$45,000” for “$22,000”.

1965—Pub. L. 89–298 substituted “$22,000” for “$5,000”.