PRIA Logo™
Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§410cc–13 Authorization of Appropriations

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–A — LOWELL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › Part A — Establishment of Park and Preservation District › § 410cc–13

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the federal government to provide whatever money is needed to carry out this part of the law, but limits certain uses—grants and loans, buying property, and transportation and educational or cultural programs—to a total of $33,600,000. No funds can be authorized before October 1, 1978. Money given under this rule stays available until it is all spent. The Secretary must send Congress a report within 60 days after June 5, 1978, and then every October 1 and March 1. Each report must list the total money spent by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Lowell, and any nonprofit on Lowell projects under this law from January 1, 1974 up to the report date. The amount the Secretary may give the Commission from the funds in subsection (a)(2) cannot be more than the most recent certified total.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §410cc–13

Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)General authority; maximum amounts
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subchapter, except that—
(1)the total of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out section 410cc–32(b)(2) of this title, for the payment of grants and loans under section 410cc–33 of this title, for the acquisition of property under section 410cc–34 of this title, and for carrying out any transportation program and any educational and cultural program described in section 410cc–32(c) of this title shall not exceed $33,600,000.
(b)Commencement date
No funds shall be authorized pursuant to this section prior to October 1, 1978.
(c)Availability of appropriations
Funds appropriated under subsection (a) of this section shall remain available until expended.
(d)Aggregate amount of money expended; certifying statement to Congress as limiting availability of appropriated amounts
(1)Within 60 days after June 5, 1978, and on each subsequent October 1 and March 1, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a statement certifying the aggregate amount of money expended by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Lowell, and by any nonprofit entity for activities in the city of Lowell consistent with the purpose of this subchapter during the period beginning on January 1, 1974, and ending on the date such statement is submitted.
(2)The aggregate amount of funds made available by the Secretary to the Commission from funds appropriated under subsection (a)(2) of this section may not exceed the amount certified by the Secretary in the most recent statement submitted to the Congress under paragraph (1) of this subsection.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–328 redesignated par. (2) as (1) and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: “the total of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of acquisition and development under the park management plan established pursuant to section 410cc–21(b) of this title and emergency assistance under section 410cc–25(a)(1) of this title shall not exceed $19,800,000; and”. 1987—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–134 substituted “$19,800,000” for “$18,500,000” in par. (1), and “$33,600,000” for “$21,500,000” in par. (2).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1987 Amendment Pub. L. 100–134, § 2, Oct. 16, 1987, 101 Stat. 810, provided that: “(a) In General.—Except as provided in subsection (b), the

Amendments

made by section 1 [amending section 410cc–13 and 410cc–31 of this title] shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 16, 1987]. “(b)

Effective Date

of Authorization of Appropriation.—The

Amendments

made by section 1(1) [amending section 410cc–13 of this title] shall take effect on
October 1, 1987.” Termination of Reporting RequirementsFor termination, effective
May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which a report required under subsec. (d)(1) of this section is listed on page 108), see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 410cc–13

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110