§ 696b. Authorization of appropriations; limitation

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. 1957

   Pub. L. 85–164 § 3 · 71 Stat. 412

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 696b

   Pub. L. 85–164, § 3, Aug. 22, 1957, 71 Stat. 413

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 85–164, § 3, Aug. 22, 1957, 71 Stat. 413

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time Appropriation. to time out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act. The Secretary shall not utilize more than $35,000 from appropriated funds for the acquisition of land and interests in land. For the purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, the exchange by the Secretary of lands and interests therein shall not be considered an expenditure from appropriated funds.

2. 1966

   Pub. L. 89–669 § 10(b) · 80 Stat. 926

   Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 696b

   Pub. L. 89–669 increased from $35,000 to $2,035,000 the limitation on funds for acquisition of land, provided for such acquisition “for the purposes of sections 696 to 696b of this title”, and struck out sentence which provided that exchange by the Secretary of lands and interests therein shall not be considered an expenditure from appropriated funds for acquisition of land

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 89–669 increased from $35,000 to $2,035,000 the limitation on funds for acquisition of land, provided for such acquisition “for the purposes of sections 696 to 696b of this title”, and struck out sentence which provided that exchange by the Secretary of lands and interests therein shall not be considered an expenditure from appropriated funds for acquisition of land.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Section 3 of such Act of August 22, 1957 (16 U.S.C. 696b), is amended by striking out the second and third sentences and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “The Secretary shall not utilize more than $2,035,000 from appropriated funds for the acquisition of land and interests in land for the purposes of this Act.”

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision