---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460m–14"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460m–14"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460m-14"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXI — Buffalo National River"
---

# §460m–14. Authorization of appropriations


For the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in lands, there are authorized to be appropriated not more than $39,948,000. For development of the national river, there are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $9,371,000.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–237, § 7, Mar. 1, 1972, 86 Stat. 46; Pub. L. 94–578, title I, § 101(3), title III, § 310, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2732, 2736; Pub. L. 95–625, title II, § 201(2), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3473.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 increased land acquisition appropriations authorization to $39,948,000 from $30,071,500.

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “$30,071,500” for “$16,115,000” in provision covering the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and substituted “For development of the national river, there are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $9,371,000” for “For development of the national river, there are authorized to be appropriated not more than $283,000 in fiscal year 1974; $2,923,000 in fiscal year 1975; $3,643,000 in fiscal year 1976; $1,262,000 in fiscal year 1977; and $1,260,000 in fiscal year 1978. The sums appropriated each year shall remain available until expended”.