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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 272f. Authorization of appropriations

Statutory 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, $275,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and not to exceed $1,031,800 (April 1970 prices) for development, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved herein. The sums authorized in this section shall be available for acquisition and development undertaken subsequent 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. 92–155 § 7 · 85 Stat. 422

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 272f

    Pub. L. 92–155, § 7, Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 423

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 92–155, § 7, Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 423

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as Appropriation. may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not to exceed, however, $125,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and not to exceed $1,031,800 (April 1970 prices) for development, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved herein. The sums authorized in this section shall he available for acquisition and development undertaken subsequent to the approval of this Act.

  2. Pub. L. 94–578 title I § 101(1) · 90 Stat. 2732

    Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 272f

    Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$275,000” for “$125,000”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$275,000” for “$125,000”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Arches National Park, Utah : section 7 of the Act of November 12, 1971 (85 Stat. 422), is amended by changing “$125,000” to “$275,000”;

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$275,000” for “$125,000”.

Credits

1971–1976 · 2 acts
  1. 1971Pub. L. 92–155, § 7, , 85 Stat. 423
  2. 1976Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(1), , 90 Stat. 2732.
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(Pub. L. 92–155, § 7, , 85 Stat. 423; Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(1), , 90 Stat. 2732.)

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