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title: "16 U.S.C. § 460dd–9"
description: "Authorization of appropriations; limitation"
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title_number: 16
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# 16 U.S.C. § 460dd–9 - Authorization of appropriations; limitation

## Text

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, not to exceed, however, $400,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and not to exceed $37,325,400 for development. The sums authorized in this section shall be available for acquisition and development undertaken subsequent to the approval of this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 92–593, § 10, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1313.)