---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459e–9"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459e–9"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459e-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459e–9. Authorization of appropriations


There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not more than $23,000,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in land pursuant to sections [459e](/usc/16/459e.md) to 459e–9 of this title, and, after December 23, 1980, not more than $500,000 for development.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–587, § 10, Sept. 11, 1964, 78 Stat. 933; Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(5), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2732; Pub. L. 95–625, title III, § 322(d), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3489; Pub. L. 96–585, § 1(e), Dec. 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 3379.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–585 inserted provision authorizing $500,000 appropriation for development.

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 substituted “$23,000,000” for “$18,000,000”.

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$18,000,000” for “$16,000,000”.