---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 283e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "283e"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations; expenditure for improvements limitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/283e"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXXIV — Guadalupe Mountains National Park"
---

# §283e. Authorization of appropriations; expenditure for improvements limitation

- (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interest in lands, and not more than $24,715,000 as may be necessary for the development of the Guadalupe Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). No funds appropriated for development purposes pursuant to this subchapter may be expended for improvements incompatible with [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) management within the corridor of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) leading to the summit of Guadalupe Peak.
- (b) In [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to amounts authorized to be appropriated under [subsection (a)](#a), there is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the construction of a fence to protect the natural and cultural resources of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) added to Guadalupe Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by [section 283a(b) of this title](/usc/16/283a.md?p=b).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–667, § 6, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 922; Pub. L. 95–625, title I, § 101(12), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3471; Pub. L. 100–541, § 2, Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2720.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–541 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted “sums” for “sums, but not more than $1,800,000 in all,”, and added subsec. (b).

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 increased development appropriations authorization to $24,715,000 from $10,362,000 and prohibited expenditure of funds for improvements incompatible with wilderness management within the corridor of the park leading to the summit of Guadalupe Peak.