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title: "16 U.S.C. § 422a–2"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 422a–2 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of section 422a–1 of this title, but not more than $243,000 shall be appropriated for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and not more than $325,000 shall be appropriated for development.

(Sept. 27, 1944, ch. 417, § 2, as added Pub. L. 93–477, title I, § 101(7), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1445.)