The phrase "authorized to approve" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when indicating that someone has the official power or permission to give approval for something.
Example: "The committee is authorized to approve the budget for the upcoming fiscal year."
Alternatives: "empowered to approve" or "entitled to approve".
A department may delegate such authority to those persons authorized to approve departmental expenditures in accordance with Guide Memo 3.2.1: Authorizing Expenditures, or to a selected subsection of that group.
Cf. The authority of the Secretary of Labor who is authorized to approve awards to informers in contract labor cases.
It may not be a full legislature by Western standards, but it is authorized to approve the state budget and monitor the executive authority, which rests with the ruler, called the emir.
(He undermined his point by admitting that Tom Crone was only authorized to approve payments of up to ten thousand pounds).
Speaking of the calling log program, the deputy director of the N.S.A., John C. Inglis, said that "only 20 analysts at N.S.A. and their two managers, for a total of 22 people, are authorized to approve numbers that may be used to query this database".
"Much of this funding was not covered by private insurers, and in many cases FEMA individual assistance didn't adequately 'fill the gap,' " he wrote in a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, whose office is authorized to approve the plans.
The delegation would not be authorized to discuss approving any Turkish military actions inside Iraq, said Mr. Zebari, who is himself a powerful Iraqi Kurdish politician.
Non-exempt employees cannot be authorized to schedule or approve overtime work for themselves.
Subject to the authority of the President, the General Counsel shall have chief responsibility for conduct of all of the legal affairs of the University, and shall in addition to the President be the sole official authorized to retain or approve the retention of counsel on behalf of the University.
At present in Italy, only general practitioners (GPs) are authorized to prescribe any approved opioid, thereby ensuring reimbursement of related costs to the patient and family by the Italian National Health System.
In connection with direct loans made and held by the Department of Veterans Affairs, such designated employees may take any action which they are authorized to consent to or approve in respect to guaranteed loans under § 36.4342.
