---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459b–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459b–8"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459b-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459b–8. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections [459b](/usc/16/459b.md) to 459b–8 of this title; except that no more than $42,917,575 shall be appropriated for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of land and waters and improvements thereon, and interests therein, and incidental costs relating thereto, in accordance with the provisions of such sections.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–126, § 9, Aug. 7, 1961, 75 Stat. 293; Pub. L. 91–252, May 14, 1970, 84 Stat. 216; Pub. L. 98–141, § 3, Oct. 31, 1983, 97 Stat. 909.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1983—Pub. L. 98–141 substituted “$42,917,575” for “$33,500,000”.

1970—Pub. L. 91–252 substituted “$33,500,000” for “$16,000,000”.