---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 284b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "284b"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/284b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXXV — Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts"
---

# §284b. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, but not in excess of $5,473,000, to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–671, § 3, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 92–272, title II, § 201(4), Apr. 11, 1972, 86 Stat. 120.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–272 increased maximum sums authorized to be appropriated from not in excess of $600,000 to not in excess of $5,473,000.