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[CITE: 16USC459c-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459c-1. Description of area


(a) Boundary map; availability; publication in Federal Register

    The Point Reyes National Seashore shall consist of the lands, 
waters, and submerged lands generally depicted on the map entitled 
``Boundary Map, Point Reyes National Seashore'', numbered 612-80,008-E 
and dated May 1978, plus those areas depicted on the map entitled 
``Point Reyes and GGNRA Amendments, dated October 25, 1979''.
    The map referred to in this section shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the Offices of the National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior, Washington, District of Columbia. After 
advising the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the United States Senate in writing, the Secretary may make minor 
revisions of the boundaries of the Point Reyes National Seashore when 
necessary by publication of a revised drawing or other boundary 
description in the Federal Register.

(b) Bear Valley Ranch right-of-way

    The area referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall also 
include a right-of-way to the aforesaid tract in the general vicinity of 
the northwesterly portion of the property known as ``Bear Valley 
Ranch'', to be selected by the Secretary, of not more than four hundred 
feet in width, together with such adjoining lands as would be deprived 
of access by reason of the acquisition of such right-of-way.

(Pub. L. 87-657, Sec. 2, Sept. 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 538; Pub. L. 89-666, 
Sec. 1(a), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 919; Pub. L. 93-550, title II, 
Sec. 201, Dec. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1744; Pub. L. 95-625, title III, 
Sec. 318(a), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3486; Pub. L. 96-199, title I, 
Sec. 101(a)(1), Mar. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 67; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 6(d)(16), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' 
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.
    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-199 inserted ``, plus those areas 
depicted on the map entitled `Point Reyes and GGNRA Amendments, dated 
October 25, 1979' '' after ``dated May 1978''.
    1978--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-625 substituted as a description of 
the area the lands generally depicted on Boundary Map numbered 612-
80,008-E and dated May 1978 for prior such depiction on Boundary Map 
numbered 612-80,008-B, and dated August 1974; included submerged lands 
in the description; made the map specifically available in the 
Washington, District of Columbia, Office; and authorized minor revisions 
of boundaries and publication thereof in the Federal Register after 
advising Congressional committees.
    1974--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-550 substituted as a boundary 
description Boundary Map No. 612-80,008-B, and dated August 1974, on 
file in the office of the National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior, for a boundary map designated NS-PR-7001, dated June 1, 1960, 
on file with the Director of the National Park Service, Washington, 
D.C., and all measurements relating thereto.
    1966--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89-666 inserted ``to the aforesaid tract 
in the general vicinity of the northwesterly portion of the property 
known as `Bear Valley Ranch' '' after ``right-of-way'', struck out 
``from the intersection of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Haggerty 
Gulch'' after ``aforesaid tract'' and included such adjoining lands as 
would be deprived of access by reason of the right-of-way.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459c, 459c-2, 459c-4, 459c-
5, 459c-6, 459c-6b, 459c-7 of this title.
