---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aa–12"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aa–12"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations; availability of land and water conservation fund money"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aa-12"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXV — Sawtooth National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aa–12. Authorization of appropriations; availability of land and water conservation fund money


There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this subchapter not more than $47,802,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in lands and not more than $26,241,000 for development. Money appropriated from the land and water conservation fund shall be available for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands, waters, and interests therein within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–400, § 13, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 615; Pub. L. 95–625, title II, § 202, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3473.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 increased land acquisition appropriations authorization to $47,802,000 from $19,802,000.