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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "15 U.S.C. § 278c"
+description: "Acquisition of land for field sites"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 15
+title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
+chapter_number: "7"
+chapter_name: "NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY"
+section: "278c"
+citation: "15 U.S.C. § 278c"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s278c"
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+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 15 U.S.C. § 278c - Acquisition of land for field sites
+
+## Text
+
+To the extent that funds are specifically appropriated therefor, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to acquire land for such field sites as are necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of the activities authorized herein.
+
+(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 13, as added Pub. L. 85–890, § 1, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1711.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+References in Text“Herein”, referred to in text, refers to act Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, which is classified generally to this chapter.
+
+Prior ProvisionsA prior section 13 of act Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, as added July 22, 1950, ch. 486, § 2, 64 Stat. 373, related to acceptance of gifts and bequests, prior to repeal by act Aug. 3, 1956. See sections 1522 and 1523 of this title.