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[CITE: 16USC459j-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459j-1. Acquisition of property; donation and development 
        of State lands; transfer from Federal agency to administrative 
        jurisdiction of Secretary; written cooperative agreement with 
        National Aeronautics and Space Administration; construction and 
        development; report to Congressional committees
        
    Within the boundaries of the seashore, the Secretary may acquire 
lands, waters, and interests therein by donation, purchase with donated 
or appropriated funds, exchange, or transfer. Any property owned by the 
State of Florida or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired 
only by donation. It is the intent and purpose of sections 459j to 459j-
8 of this title that the Secretary shall have sole authority to develop 
and improve those State owned lands donated now and in the future in 
accordance with the intent and purposes of sections 459j to 459j-8 of 
this title. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any federally 
owned property within the boundaries of the seashore may, with the 
concurrence of the agency having custody thereof, be transferred without 
consideration to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 
Interior and he may develop and administer such lands in a manner 
consistent with the purposes of sections 459j to 459j-8 of this title. 
In accepting lands transferred by the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration pursuant to sections 459j to 459j-8 of this title the 
Secretary shall enter into a written cooperative agreement with the 
Administrator to assure the use of such lands in a manner which is 
deemed consistent with the public safety and with the needs of the space 
and defense programs of the Nation: Provided, That no new construction 
or development shall be permitted within the seashore, except for the 
construction of such facilities as the Secretary deems necessary for the 
health and safety of the visiting public or for the proper 
administration of the seashore: Provided further, That after January 3, 
1975, the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the 
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
shall submit to the Committees on Natural Resources and on Science, 
Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and to the 
Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate a report of all land transfers made by the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the Department of the 
Interior under sections 459j to 459j-8 of this title.

(Pub. L. 93-626, Sec. 2, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2122; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 6(o), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4586.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources and on 
Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and to 
the Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate'' for ``Interior and Insular Affairs of 
the Congress and to the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the 
House of Representatives and to the Committee on Aeronautical and Space 
Sciences of the Senate''.

                         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.
    Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Science of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2.


                          Additions to Seashore

    Pub. L. 100-564, Secs. 1, 3, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2831, 
authorized and directed the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain 
lands depicted on a map entitled ``Additions to Canaveral National 
Seashore'', required the Secretary to file the map with certain 
Congressional committees, and authorized appropriations necessary to 
carry out such acquisitions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459j-2, 459j-4, 459j-5, 
459j-6, 459j-8 of this title.
