---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1736"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1736"
heading: "Working capital fund"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1736"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Federal Land Policy and Management"
  - "Subchapter III — Administration"
---

# §1736. Working capital fund

- (a) **Establishment; availability of fund—** There is hereby established a working capital [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k) for the management of the [public lands](/usc/43/1702.md?p=e). This [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k) shall be available without fiscal year limitation for expenses necessary for furnishing, in accordance with [chapters 1 to 11](/usc/40/ch1..11.md) of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of [title 41](/usc/41.md), and regulations promulgated thereunder, supplies and equipment services in support of Bureau [programs](/usc/43/2401.md?p=7), including but not limited to, the purchase or construction of storage facilities, equipment yards, and related improvements and the purchase, [lease](/usc/43/1331.md?p=c), or rent of motor vehicles, aircraft, heavy equipment, and fire control and other resource management equipment within the limitations set forth in appropriations made to the [Secretary](/usc/43/1702.md?p=g) for the Bureau.
- (b) **Initial funding; subsequent transfers—** The initial capital of the [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k) shall consist of appropriations made for that purpose together with the fair and reasonable value at the [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k)’s inception of the inventories, equipment, receivables, and other [assets](/usc/43/505a.md?p=1-A), less the liabilities, transferred to the [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k). The [Secretary](/usc/43/1702.md?p=g) is authorized to make such subsequent transfers to the [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k) as he deems appropriate in connection with the functions to be carried on through the [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k).
- (c) **Payments credited to fund; amount; advancement or reimbursement—** The [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k) shall be credited with payments from appropriations, and [funds](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k) of the Bureau, other [agencies](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m) of the [Department](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m) of the Interior, other Federal [agencies](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m), and other sources, as authorized by law, at rates approximately equal to the cost of furnishing the facilities, supplies, equipment, and services (including depreciation and accrued annual leave). Such payments may be made in advance in connection with firm orders, or by way of reimbursement.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is hereby authorized to be appropriated a sum not to exceed $3,000,000 as initial capital of the working capital [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–579, title III, § 306, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2766.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In subsec. (a), “chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41” substituted for “the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377, as amended)” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, which Act enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.