---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 425j"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "425j"
heading: "Authorization of appropriation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/425j"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §425j. Authorization of appropriation


To enable the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to begin to carry out the provisions of sections [425](/usc/16/425.md) to 425j of this title, including the condemnation, purchase, or lease of the necessary lands, surveys, [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), marking the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), opening, constructing, or repairing necessary roads, pay and expenses of commissioners, salaries for labor and services, traveling expenses, supplies and materials, the sum of $50,000 is authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until expended, and such additional sums are authorized to be appropriated from time to time as may be necessary for the completion of the [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) and for the proper maintenance of said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). All disbursements under said sections shall be annually reported by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to Congress.


## Source credit

(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, § 11, 44 Stat. 1094; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 425 of this title.