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[CITE: 16USC459i-5]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459i-5. Administration, protection, and development


(a) Applicability of provisions; utilization of statutory authorities

    The seashore shall be administered, protected, and developed in 
accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title, 
as amended and supplemented, except that any other statutory authority 
available to the Secretary for the conservation and management of 
natural resources may be utilized to the extent he finds such authority 
will further the purposes of sections 459i to 459i-9 of this title.

(b) Preservation in primitive state; recreational activities exception

    Except for certain portions of the seashore deemed to be especially 
adaptable for recreational uses, particularly swimming, boating, 
fishing, hiking, horseback riding, and other recreational activities of 
similar nature, which shall be developed for such uses as needed, the 
seashore shall be permanently preserved in its primitive state, and no 
development of the project or plan for the convenience of visitors shall 
be undertaken which would be incompatible with the preservation of the 
unique flora and fauna or the physiographic conditions not prevailing, 
nor shall any road or causeway connecting Cumberland Island to the 
mainland be constructed.

(Pub. L. 92-536, Sec. 6, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1068.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459i-2, 459i-6, 459i-7 of 
this title.
