---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 81f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "81f"
heading: "Authorization of appropriation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/81f"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter IX — Colonial National Historical Park"
---

# §81f. Authorization of appropriation


There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter, which shall not exceed the sum of $8,572,000 to be available for all expenses incident to the examination and establishment of the said Colonial National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and/or lands and improvements needed for the completion of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), including the securing of options and other incidental expenses. The [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of the Yorktown battlefield, authorized for inclusion in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), is extended to not to exceed four thousand five hundred acres, and all Government-owned lands within the boundaries of said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) as established by presidential proclamation, except those determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior as not necessary in carrying out the objects of said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) are transferred to the administrative jurisdiction and control of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1930, ch. 837, § 4, 46 Stat. 856; Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 405, 46 Stat. 1490; June 5, 1936, ch. 525, § 2, 49 Stat. 1483; Pub. L. 90–74, Aug. 29, 1967, 81 Stat. 176; Pub. L. 93–477, title I, § 101(2), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1445; Pub. L. 109–418, § 3, Dec. 19, 2006, 120 Stat. 2883.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 443c of this title.

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–418 substituted “$8,572,000” for “$10,472,000”.

1974—Pub. L. 93–477 substituted “$10,472,000” for “$2,777,000”.

1967—Pub. L. 90–74 substituted “$2,777,000” for “$2,000,000”.

1931—Act Mar. 3, 1931, changed amount of appropriation and inserted last sentence extending the area of Yorktown battlefield.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act June 5, 1936, changed “Colonial National Monument” to “Colonial National Historical Park”.

### George Waller Blow Estate; Use of 1967 Increase in Authorization of Appropriations To Purchase

Pub. L. 90–74 provided in part that the limit on the authorized appropriation was increased from $2,000,000 to $2,777,000 in order to permit acquisition of the Thomas Nelson House, the Edmund Smith House, the John Ballard House, and the Thomas Pate House, all of which are located within the boundaries of the Colonial National Historical Park on lots numbered 42A, 44 through 55, 84, 85, and 120 through 129, and known as the George Waller Blow Estate.