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title_number: 16
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# 16 U.S.C. § 266 - Authorization of appropriations for acquisition of additional lands

## Text

For the acquisition of lands authorized in section 267 of this title, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, but not more than $427,500.

(Pub. L. 93–477, title I, § 101(3), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1445.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of act June 11, 1940, ch. 304, 54 Stat. 262, which comprises this subchapter.