---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 429b–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "429b–4"
heading: "Funds from Land and Water Conservation Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/429b-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §429b–4. Funds from Land and Water Conservation Fund

- (a) **Maximum amount usable for acquisition of property—** In [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to sums heretofore expended for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of property and interests therein for the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), from funds available for expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, as established under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965,[^1] not more than a total of $8,700,000 may be expended for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of property and interests therein under sections [429b](/usc/16/429b.md) to [429b–5](/usc/16/429b–5.md) of this title.
- (b) **Completion of acquisition in two years—** It is the express intent of Congress that, except for property referred to in [section 429b–1(b) of this title](/usc/16/429b–1.md?p=b), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) property and interests therein under sections [429b](/usc/16/429b.md) to [429b–5](/usc/16/429b–5.md) of this title within two complete fiscal years after October 13, 1980.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Apr. 17, 1954, ch. 153, § 5, as added Pub. L. 96–442, § 2, Oct. 13, 1980, 94 Stat. 1886.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 88–578, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 897, which was classified principally to part B (§ 460l–4 et seq.) of subchapter LXIX of this chapter. Sections 2, 3, 4(i)(1)(C), (j) to (n), 5 to 10, and 201 of the Act were repealed and restated as sections 100506(c) and 100904 and chapter 2003 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.