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[CITE: 16USC459j-8]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459j-8. Authorization of appropriations; reports to 
        Congressional committees
        

(a) Acquisition of lands and interests in lands

    There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 459j to 459j-8 of this 
title, but not more than $7,941,000 for the acquisition of lands and 
interests in lands. In order to avoid excessive costs resulting from 
delays in the acquisition program, the Secretary shall make every 
reasonable effort to promptly acquire the privately owned lands within 
the seashore. Until all such lands are acquired, he shall report, in 
writing on June 30 of each year to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives, the following information:
        (1) the amount of land acquired during the current fiscal year 
    and the amount expended therefor;
        (2) the amount of land remaining to be acquired; and
        (3) the amount of land programed for acquisition in the ensuing 
    fiscal year and the estimated cost thereof.

(b) Development of essential public facilities

    For the development of essential public facilities there are 
authorized to be appropriated $2.6 million in addition to the sums 
previously appropriated.

(Pub. L. 93-626, Sec. 9, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2125; Pub. L. 100-564, 
Sec. 2, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2831; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(m), Nov. 
2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4586.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(m)(1), in introductory 
provisions substituted ``Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
Representatives'' for ``Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of 
the United States Congress''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(m)(2), struck out at end 
``Within three years from January 3, 1975, the Secretary shall develop 
and transmit to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the 
United States Congress a final master plan for the full development of 
the seashore consistent with the preservation objectives of sections 
459j to 459j-8 of this title, indicating:
        ``(1) the facilities needed to accommodate the health, safety, 
    and recreation needs of the visiting public;
        ``(2) the location and estimated cost of all facilities; and
        ``(3) the projected need for any additional facilities within 
    the seashore.''
    1988--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100-564 substituted ``$2.6 million in 
addition to the sums previously appropriated'' for ``not more than 
$500,000''.

                         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 459j-1, 459j-2, 459j-4, 
459j-5, 459j-6 of this title.
