PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Up to $8,572,000 may be taken from Treasury money not already set aside to pay for creating and setting up the Colonial National Historical Park. That money pays for planning, buying or improving land, buying options, and other related costs. The Yorktown battlefield can be increased to no more than 4,500 acres, and federal land inside the park boundaries set by the President is given to the National Park Service unless the Secretary of the Interior says some of it is not needed.

Title 16, §81f

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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 and for the acquisition of lands and/or lands and improvements needed for the completion of the park, including the securing of options and other incidental expenses. The area of the Yorktown battlefield, authorized for inclusion in said park, is extended to not to exceed four thousand five hundred acres, and all Government-owned lands within the boundaries of said park as established by presidential proclamation, except those determined by the Secretary of the Interior as not necessary in carrying out the objects of said park are transferred to the administrative jurisdiction and control of the National Park Service.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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.

§81f Authorization of Appropriation