---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 271g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "271g"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/271g"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXIX — Canyonlands National Park"
---

# §271g. Authorization of appropriations


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, $104,500 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and not to exceed $5,102,000 (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 indexes applicable to the types of construction involved herein. The sums authorized in this section shall be available for [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) and development in the [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) added by this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–590, § 8, as added Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(d), Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 421; amended Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(12), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2732.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$104,500” for “$16,000”.