---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 266"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "266"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations for acquisition of additional lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/266"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXVIII — Cumberland Gap National Historical Park"
---

# §266. Authorization of appropriations for acquisition of additional lands


For the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands authorized in [section 267 of this title](/usc/16/267.md), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, but not more than $427,500.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–477, title I, § 101(3), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1445.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act June 11, 1940, ch. 304, 54 Stat. 262, which comprises this subchapter.