---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 4106"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "4106"
heading: "Funding and additional authorities"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/4106"
units:
  - "Chapter 54 — Commercial Engagement Through Ocean Technology"
---

# §4106. Funding and additional authorities

- (a) **Funding—** The [Administrator](/usc/33/4101.md?p=2) shall carry out this chapter using existing amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to the [Administration](/usc/33/4101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Additional authorities—** In carrying out this chapter, the [Administrator](/usc/33/4101.md?p=2) may—
  - (1) enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, and other transactions with any domestic or foreign government;
  - (2) notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](/usc/31/1342.md), accept donations and voluntary and uncompensated services;
  - (3) accept funds from other Federal departments and agencies;
  - (4) utilize the National Oceanographic Partnership [Program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11) established under chapter 665 of title 10 to accept funds from other Federal departments and agencies, to accept donations, and to enter into contracts and award grants;
  - (5) under an agreement entered into under [paragraph (1)](#b-1), transfer funds appropriated to carry our this chapter to any organization; and
  - (6) use, with their consent, with or without reimbursement, and subject to the availability of appropriations, the land, services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of—
    - (A) any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States;
    - (B) any State or local government or tribal government; or
    - (C) any foreign government or international organization.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–394, § 7, Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5286.)