{"identifier":"/us/usc/t38/s313","title":38,"num":"\u00a7\u202f313.","heading":"Availability of appropriations","text":"\u00a7\u202f313.\nAvailability of appropriations\n(a) Funds appropriated to the Department may remain available until expended.\n(b) Funds appropriated to the Department may not be used for a settlement of more than $1,000,000 on a construction contract unless\u2014\n(1) the settlement is audited by an entity outside the Department for reasonableness and appropriateness of expenditures; and\n(2) the settlement is provided for specifically in an appropriation law.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t38/s313.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t38/s313","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f313."},{"t":"heading","text":"Availability of appropriations"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t38/s313/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" Funds appropriated to the Department may remain available until expended.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t38/s313/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" Funds appropriated to the Department may not be used for a settlement of more than $1,000,000 on a construction contract unless\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t38/s313/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" the settlement is audited by an entity outside the Department for reasonableness and appropriateness of expenditures; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t38/s313/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" the settlement is provided for specifically in an appropriation law.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}