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title: "16 U.S.C. § 428m"
description: "Authorization of appropriation"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
section: "428m"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 428m"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 428m - Authorization of appropriation

## Text

There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of not to exceed $454,000 for the purpose of acquiring lands, interests in lands, and improvements thereon as may be necessary for carrying out sections 428k to 428o of this title.

(Pub. L. 86–738, § 3, Sept. 8, 1960, 74 Stat. 876; Pub. L. 92–272, title I, § 101(5), Apr. 11, 1972, 86 Stat. 120.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments1972—Pub. L. 92–272 increased authorization of appropriations from a sum not to exceed $226,000 to a sum not to exceed $454,000.