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[CITE: 16USC459h-4]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459h-4. Administration of seashore; conservation and 
        management of wildlife and natural resources; authority to 
        designate areas as national historic sites; agreements
        

(a) In general

    Except as otherwise provided in sections 459h to 459h-10 of this 
title, the Secretary shall administer the seashore in accordance with 
sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title, as amended and supplemented. In 
the administration of the seashore the Secretary may utilize such 
statutory authorities available to him for the conservation and 
management of wildlife natural resources as he deems appropriate to 
carry out the purposes of sections 459h to 459h-10 of this title. With 
respect to Fort Redoubt, Fort San Carlos, Fort Barrancas at Pensacola 
Naval Air Station, Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, and Fort McRee on 
Perdido Key, Florida, and Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island, 
Mississippi, together with such adjacent lands as the Secretary may 
designate, the Secretary shall administer such lands so as to recognize, 
preserve, and interpret their national historical significance in 
accordance with sections 461 to 467 of this title, and he may designate 
them as national historic sites.

(b) Agreements

                           (1) In general

        The Secretary may enter into agreements--
            (A) with the State of Mississippi for the purposes of 
        managing resources and providing law enforcement assistance, 
        subject to authorization by State law, and emergency services on 
        or within any land on Cat Island and any water and submerged 
        land within the buffer zone; and
            (B) with the owners of the approximately 150-acre parcel 
        depicted as the ``Boddie Family Tract'' on the Cat Island Map 
        concerning the development and use of the land.

           (2) No authority to enforce certain regulations

        Nothing in this subsection authorizes the Secretary to enforce 
    Federal regulations outside the land area within the designated 
    boundary of the seashore.

(Pub. L. 91-660, Sec. 5, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1968; Pub. L. 106-554, 
Sec. 1(a)(4) [div. B, title I, Sec. 137(d)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 
2763, 2763A-232.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-554 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), 
inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459h, 459h-1, 459h-2, 459h-
5, 459h-6, 459h-8, 459h-9 of this title.
