Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§460o–2 Designation of Area; Boundaries

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXXIII — DELAWARE WATER GAP NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460o–2

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must declare the area established by publishing a notice in the Federal Register as soon as practicable after September 1, 1965, once the Army transfers control of the lands that form a manageable unit. The notice must give a detailed description of the boundaries and, before formal establishment, the Interior must manage the transferred lands and waters in line with the project’s construction while preparing for the area’s creation. The Interior may later change the boundary by publishing an amended description and may acquire more land by purchase, exchange, or other means (including paying or receiving money to equalize value). The total acreage after any change cannot be larger than the acreage first described. Lands bought for recreation may continue their existing uses if the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Interior agree.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460o–2

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(a)Publication in Federal Register; description of boundaries; administration of transferred lands and waters

As soon as practicable after September 1, 1965, and following the transfer to the Secretary of the Interior by the Secretary of the Army of jurisdiction over those lands and interests therein within the boundary generally depicted on the drawing described in section 460o–1 of this title which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, constitute an efficiently administrable unit, the Secretary of the Interior shall declare establishment of the area by publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register. Such notice shall contain a detailed description of the boundaries of the area which shall encompass, to the extent practicable, the lands and waters shown on said drawing. Prior to such establishment, the Secretary of the Interior shall administer such transferred lands and waters, consistent with the construction of the project, for purposes in contemplation of the establishment of the area pursuant to this subchapter.

(b)Adjustments in boundaries; publication in Federal Register; acquisition of additional lands; acreage limitations

The Secretary of the Interior may subsequently make adjustments in the boundary of the area by publication of the amended description thereof in the Federal Register and acquire, by such means as he may deem to be in the public interest, including an exchange of excluded for included lands or interests therein with or without the payment or receipt of money to equalize values, additional lands and interests therein included in the area by reason of the boundary adjustment: Provided, That the area encompassed by such revised boundary shall not exceed the acreage included within the detailed boundary first described pursuant to this section.

(c)Continuance of existing uses

On lands acquired pursuant to this subchapter for recreation purposes, the Secretary of the Army, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, may permit the continuance of existing uses consistent with the purposes of this subchapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460o–2

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110