---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 272f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "272f"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/272f"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXX — Arches National Park"
---

# §272f. 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, $275,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) 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](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) and development undertaken subsequent to November 12, 1971.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–155, § 7, Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 423; Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(1), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2732.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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