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442 § 7201. Guided missiles: research and development, procurement, and construction The Secretary of the Navy may— (1) conduct research and development relating to guided missiles; and (2) procure and construct guided missiles. § 7202. Emergency and extraordinary expenses (a) Within the limits of appropriations made for the purpose, the Secretary of the Navy may provide for any emergency or any extraordinary expense that arises in the Department of the Navy and that cannot be anticipated or classified. When it is so provided in such an appropriation, the funds may be spent on approval or authority of the Secretary for any purpose he determines to be proper, and such a determination is final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the United States. The Secretary may certify the amount of any such expenditure that he considers advisable not to specify, and his certificate is a sufficient voucher for the expenditure of that amount. (b) The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations. § 7203. Scientific investigation and research (a) The Secretary of the Navy may make such expenditures as he considers appropriate for scientific investigations and research from any naval appropriation available for those purposes. (b) The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authroity to make successive redelegations. § 7204. Schools near naval activities: financial aid; transportation of dependents (a) The Secretary of the Navy may— (1) contribute, out of funds specifically appropriated for the purpose, to the support of schools in any locality where a naval activity is located if he finds that the schools available in the locality are inadequate for the welfare of the dependents of— (A) members of the naval service; (B) civilian officers and employees of the Department of the Navy; (C) members of the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy; and (D) members of the Coast and Geodetic Survey serving with the Navy; who are stationed at the activity; and (2) provide for the transportation of these dependents between the schools and the activity when the schools are not accessible by regular means of transportation. (b) The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations.