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[CITE: 16USC459f-5]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459f-5. Administration of Seashore


(a) Public outdoor recreation and enjoyment; utilization of other 
        authorities

    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary 
shall administer the Assateague Island National Seashore for general 
purposes of public outdoor recreation, including conservation of natural 
features contributing to public enjoyment. In the administration of the 
seashore and the administrative site the Secretary may utilize such 
statutory authorities relating to areas administered and supervised by 
the Secretary through the National Park Service and such statutory 
authority otherwise available to him for the conservation and management 
of natural resources as he deems appropriate to carry out the purposes 
of sections 459f to 459f-11 of this title.

(b) Refuge land and waters; application of national wildlife refuge 
        provisions; public recreation uses in accordance with provisions 
        for national conservation recreational areas

    Notwithstanding any other provision of sections 459f to 459f-11 of 
this title, land and waters in the Chincoteague National Wildlife 
Refuge, which are a part of the seashore, shall be administered for 
refuge purposes under laws and regulations applicable to national 
wildlife refuges, including administration for public recreation uses in 
accordance with the provisions of the Act of September 28, 1962 (Public 
law 87-714; 76 Stat. 653) [16 U.S.C. 460k et seq.].

(c) Cooperative agreements and technical assistance to protect seashore 
        resources

    The Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements 
with local, State, and Federal agencies and with educational 
institutions and nonprofit entities to coordinate research designed to 
ensure full protection of the natural and cultural resources of the 
seashore, consistent with the purposes for which the seashore was 
established, and other applicable law. The Secretary is also authorized 
to provide technical assistance to local, State, and Federal agencies 
and to educational institutions and non-profit entities in order to 
further such purposes. The Secretary shall submit a report every two 
years to the Congress on the results of the coordinated research program 
authorized by this section and plans to implement the recommendations 
arising from such research.

(Pub. L. 89-195, Sec. 6, Sept. 21, 1965, 79 Stat. 826; Pub. L. 102-320, 
Sec. 1(5), July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 321.)

                       References in Text

    Act of September 28, 1962, referred to in subsec. (b), popularly 
known as the Refuge Recreation Act, is classified generally to 
subchapter LXVIII (Sec. 460k et seq.) of this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1992--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-320 added subsec. (c).


            Designation of Center to Honor Herbert H. Bateman

    Pub. L. 106-480, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2186, provided that:
``SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.
    ``A building proposed to be located within the boundaries of the 
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, on Assateague Island, Virginia, 
shall be known and designated as the `Herbert H. Bateman Education and 
Administrative Center'.
``SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
    ``Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the building referred to in section 1 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Herbert H. Bateman Education 
and Administrative Center'.''
    Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 106-369, Sec. 8, Oct. 
27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1419.
    Pub. L. 106-291, title I, Sec. 141, Oct. 11, 2000, 114 Stat. 949, 
provided that the building housing the visitors center within the 
boundaries of the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague 
Island, Virginia, was to be known and designated as the ``Herbert H. 
Bateman Educational and Administrative Center''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459f, 459f-1, 459f-2, 459f-
4, 459f-7, 459f-10 of this title.
