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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 251m. Authorization of appropriations

Statutory text

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $23,700,000 for the acquisition of lands, privately owned aquatic lands, or interests therein in accordance with the provisions of sections 251e to 251m of this title. No funds authorized to be appropriated pursuant to sections 251e to 251m of this title shall be available prior to .

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 94–578 title III § 320(j) · 90 Stat. 2732

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 251m

    Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 320(j), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2741

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 320(j), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2741

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (j) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed Appropriation authorization. 16 USC 251m. $13,000,000 for the acquisition of lands, privately owned aquatic lands, or interests therein in accordance, with the provisions of this title. No funds authorized to be appropriated pursuant to this title shall be available prior to October 1, 1977.

  2. Pub. L. 96–199 title I § 110 · 94 Stat. 67

    Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 251m

    Pub. L. 96–199 substituted “$23,700,000” for “$13,000,000”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 96–199 substituted “$23,700,000” for “$13,000,000”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 110. Section 320 of the Act of October 21, 1976 (90 Stat. 2732), is amended in subsection (j) by changing “$13,000,000” to “$23,700,000”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Sections 251e to 251m of this title, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title III of Pub. L. 94–578.

Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–199 substituted “$23,700,000” for “$13,000,000”.

Credits

1976–1980 · 2 acts
  1. 1976Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 320(j), , 90 Stat. 2741
  2. 1980Pub. L. 96–199, title I, § 110, , 94 Stat. 70.
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(Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 320(j), , 90 Stat. 2741; Pub. L. 96–199, title I, § 110, , 94 Stat. 70.)

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