---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450ss–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450ss–5"
heading: "Limitations on funding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450ss-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450ss–5. Limitations on funding


Authorization of Appropriations:[^1]

- (1) **In general—** In furtherance of the purposes of sections [450ss](/usc/16/450ss.md) to [450ss–7](/usc/16/450ss–7.md) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may provide, from the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service’s National Recreation and Preservation account, the remainder of the sum of $5,000,000 for an endowment fund subject to [paragraph (2)](#2), to remain available until expended.
- (2) **Matching requirement—** Amounts appropriated in any fiscal year to carry out the provisions of sections [450ss](/usc/16/450ss.md) to [450ss–7](/usc/16/450ss–7.md) may only be expended on a matching basis in a ratio of at least one non-Federal dollar to every Federal dollar. For the purposes of this provision, each non-Federal dollar donated to the [Foundation](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=1) for the creation, maintenance, operation, or endowment of the [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) shall satisfy the matching dollar requirement without regard to the fiscal year in which such donation is made.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. “Appropriations” probably should not be capitalized.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–58, § 7, Oct. 9, 1997, 111 Stat. 1266; Pub. L. 108–199, div. F, title V, § 544(f), Jan. 23, 2004, 118 Stat. 348; Pub. L. 116–283, div. H, title XCV, § 9501, Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4822.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Par. (1). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “the Secretary may provide, from the National Park Service’s National Recreation and Preservation account, the remainder of” for “there is hereby authorized”.

2004—Par. (1). Pub. L. 108–199, § 544(f)(1), inserted “for an endowment fund subject to paragraph (2)” after “the sum of $5,000,000”.

Par. (2). Pub. L. 108–199, § 544(f)(2), struck out “Trust or to the Oklahoma City Memorial” after “each non-Federal dollar donated to the” and substituted “operation, or endowment” for “or operation”.