---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460bb–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460bb–5"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations; limitation; adjustments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460bb-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXVI — Golden Gate National Recreation Area"
---

# §460bb–5. Authorization of appropriations; limitation; adjustments


There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter, but not more than $61,610,000 plus $15,500,000 shall be appropriated for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in lands. There are authorized to be appropriated not more than $58,000,000 (May 1971 prices) for the development of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein said total development ceiling to be reduced by $10,000,000.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–589, § 6, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1303; Pub. L. 96–199, title I, § 103(b), Mar. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 68.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–199 inserted “plus $15,500,000” after “$61,610,000” and “said total development ceiling to be reduced by $10,000,000” after “type of construction involved herein”.