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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§450ss–5 Limitations on Funding

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXI — NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 450ss–5

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Secretary to put the remaining part of $5,000,000 from the National Park Service’s National Recreation and Preservation account into an endowment fund for the Memorial. That money stays available until it is spent. Any federal money used must be matched at least one non-Federal dollar for every Federal dollar. Donations to the Foundation for creating, running, maintaining, or endowing the Memorial count toward that match, no matter which fiscal year the donation was made.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §450ss–5

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Authorization of Appropriations:
(1)In general
In furtherance of the purposes of sections 450ss to 450ss–7 of this title, the Secretary may provide, from the National Park Service’s National Recreation and Preservation account, the remainder of the sum of $5,000,000 for an endowment fund subject to paragraph (2), to remain available until expended.
(2)Matching requirement
Amounts appropriated in any fiscal year to carry out the provisions of sections 450ss to 450ss–7 may only be expended on a matching basis in a ratio of at least one non-Federal dollar to every Federal dollar. For the purposes of this provision, each non-Federal dollar donated to the Foundation for the creation, maintenance, operation, or endowment of the Memorial shall satisfy the matching dollar requirement without regard to the fiscal year in which such donation is made.

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Amendments

2021—Par. (1). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “the Secretary may provide, from the National Park Service’s National Recreation and Preservation account, the remainder of” for “there is hereby authorized”. 2004—Par. (1). Pub. L. 108–199, § 544(f)(1), inserted “for an endowment fund subject to paragraph (2)” after “the sum of $5,000,000”. Par. (2). Pub. L. 108–199, § 544(f)(2), struck out “Trust or to the Oklahoma City Memorial” after “each non-Federal dollar donated to the” and substituted “operation, or endowment” for “or operation”.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 450ss–5

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110