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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 459c. Point Reyes National Seashore; purposes; authorization for establishment

Statutory text

In order to save and preserve, for purposes of public recreation, benefit, and inspiration, a portion of the diminishing seashore of the United States that remains undeveloped, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) is authorized to take appropriate action in the public interest toward the establishment of the national seashore set forth in section 459c–1 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 87–657 § 1 · 76 Stat. 538

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 459c

    (Pub. L. 87–657, § 1, Sept. 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 538.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–657, § 1, Sept. 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 538.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 87–657, § 1, , 76 Stat. 538.)

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