---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 273f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "273f"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/273f"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXXI — Capitol Reef National Park"
---

# §273f. 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, $2,173,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in lands and not to exceed $1,373,000 for development. The sums authorized in this section shall be available for [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) and development undertaken subsequent to December 18, 1971.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–207, § 7, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 740; Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(4), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2732; Pub. L. 95–625, title I, § 101(5), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3471.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 substituted “$1,373,000 for development” for “$1,052,700 (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”.

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$2,173,000” for “$423,000”.