---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 4605"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "4605"
heading: "Authority to execute contracts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/4605"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Take Pride in America Program"
---

# §4605. Authority to execute contracts


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements and generally to do any and all lawful acts necessary or appropriate to further the purposes of the TPIA Program.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–628, title XI, § 1106, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4503.)