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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§459g–2 Establishment; Notice in Federal Register; Copies to Congress

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LXIII— NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS › § 459g–2

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the United States owns enough land to be a unit under secs. 459g–459g–7, the Secretary must publish a Federal Register notice establishing the seashore with a map or description of boundaries, as nearly as possible covering the area in section 459g. A copy must go to the Speaker and Senate President 30 days before publication. Subject to secs. 459g–459g–7 and 459g–1, the Secretary may then acquire the remaining lands and interests within those boundaries.

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Title 16, §459g–2

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When title to lands and interests in lands in an amount sufficient to constitute an efficiently administerable 11 So in original. Probably should be “administrable”. unit for the purposes of sections 459g to 459g–7 of this title is vested in the United States, the Secretary shall declare the establishment of the seashore by publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register. Such notice shall contain a refined description or map of the boundaries of the seashore as the Secretary may find desirable and such exterior boundaries shall encompass, as nearly as possible, the area generally described in section 459g of this title. Copies of said description or map shall be furnished to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate not less than thirty days prior to publication in the Federal Register. Following such establishment, and subject to the limitations and conditions prescribed in sections 459g to 459g–7 of this title, the Secretary may, subject to the provisions of section 459g–1 of this title, acquire the remainder of the lands and interests in lands within the boundaries of the seashore.

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Amendments

1974—Pub. L. 93–477 substituted “in an amount sufficient to constitute an efficiently administerable [sic] unit for the purposes of sections 459g to 459g–7 of this title” for “which under section 459g–1(a) of this title may be acquired for the purposes of the seashore by donation only”, and “establishment of the seashore by publication” for “establishment of the Cape Lookout National Seashore by publication”.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 459g–2

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60