§459j — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Creates the Canaveral National Seashore to protect special natural, scenic, scientific, ecological, and historic areas of Florida and to provide public outdoor recreation. The seashore covers about 67,500 acres and is shown on a map called “Boundary Map, Canaveral National Seashore” (dated August 1974, number NS–CAN–40,000A). The law lists a boundary that starts at the intersection of State Highway 3 and State Road 402 and follows roads, an offshore half‑mile line, Bethune Beach, Turner Flats, Shipyard Canal, the Intracoastal Waterway, the Kennedy Space Center boundary, and U.S. Highway 1 back to the start. The map is on file at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. The Secretary can make small boundary changes. At least sixty days before any change, the Secretary must notify in writing the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Natural Resources, and publish the revised map or description in the Federal Register. The total area may not be increased beyond 67,500 acres.

Title 16, §459j

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In order to preserve and protect the outstanding natural, scenic, scientific, ecologic, and historic values of certain lands, shoreline, and waters of the State of Florida, and to provide for public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of the same, there is hereby established the Canaveral National Seashore (hereinafter referred to as the “seashore”), as generally depicted on the map entitled “Boundary Map, Canaveral National Seashore”, dated August 1974 and numbered NS–CAN–40,000A. Such seashore shall comprise approximately sixty-seven thousand five hundred acres within the area more particularly described by a line beginning at the intersection of State Highway 3 and State Road 402, thence generally easterly following State Road 402 to a point one-half mile offshore in the Atlantic Ocean, thence northwesterly along a line which is at each point one-half mile distant from the high water mark to Bethune Beach, thence inland in a generally westerly direction through Turner Flats and Shipyard Canal, thence northwesterly to the Intracoastal Waterway, thence southerly along the Intracoastal Waterway to the boundary of the Kennedy Space Center, thence southwesterly to United States Highway 1, thence southerly along State Highway 3 to the point of beginning. The boundary map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, District of Columbia. After advising the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, in writing, at least sixty days prior to making any boundary revisions, the Secretary may from time to time make minor revisions in the boundaries of the seashore by publication of a revised map or other boundary description in the Federal Register: Provided, That the total acreage included within the boundaries shall not exceed that enumerated in this section.

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Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States Congress”.

§459j Canaveral National Seashore; Establishment; Boundary; Boundary Revisions; Limitation on Area

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Title 16, §459j

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