---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aaa–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aaa–8"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aaa-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXII — Grand Island National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aaa–8. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **Acquisition of lands—** There are hereby authorized to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of land, interests in land, or structures within the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and on the mainland as needed for access and administrative facilities.
- (b) **Other purposes—** In [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the amounts authorized to be appropriated under [subsection (a)](#a), there are authorized to be appropriated not more than $5,000,000 for development to carry out the other purposes of this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–292, § 9, May 17, 1990, 104 Stat. 190.)