---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aa–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aa–3"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aa-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LVIII — Valley Forge National Historical Park"
---

# §410aa–3. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, but not more than $13,895,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in lands.
- (b) For the development of essential public facilities there are authorized to be appropriated not more than $500,000. Within three years from the date of establishment of the [park](/usc/16/410y.md?p=a) pursuant to this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410y.md?p=c) shall, after consulting with the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, develop and transmit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a final master plan for the development of the [park](/usc/16/410y.md?p=a) consistent with the objectives of this subchapter, indicating:
  - (1) the facilities needed to accommodate the health, safety, and interpretive needs of the visiting public;
  - (2) the location and estimated cost of all facilities; and
  - (3) the projected need for any additional facilities within the [park](/usc/16/410y.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–337, § 4, July 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 96–287, title III, § 301(3), June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 601; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(a)(3), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4583.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–437 in introductory provisions substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States Congress”.

1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–287 substituted “$13,895,000” for “$8,622,000”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Authorizations Effective October 1, 1980

Authorizations of moneys appropriated under Pub. L. 96–287 effective Oct. 1, 1980, see section 401 of Pub. L. 96–287, set out as a note under section 410gg–5 of this title.