---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–122"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–122"
heading: "Use of land and water conservation fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-122"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXV — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
  - "Part G — Funding Authorities"
---

# §460nnn–122. Use of land and water conservation fund

- (a) **Availability of fund—** There are authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 from the land and water conservation fund established under [section 200302 of title 54](/usc/54/200302.md) to provide funds for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of land and interests in land under [section 460nnn–24 of this title](/usc/16/460nnn–24.md) and to enter into [nondevelopment easements](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=4-B) and [conservation easements](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=4-A) under subsections (b) and (c) of [section 460nnn–42 of this title](/usc/16/460nnn–42.md).
- (b) **Term of use—** Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in [subsection (a)](#a) shall remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title VII, § 702, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1673; Pub. L. 113–287, § 5(d)(5), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3264.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–287 substituted “section 200302 of title 54” for “section 460l–5 of this title”.