---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459a–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459a–5"
heading: "Addition of lands; Naval Amphibious Training Station"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459a-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459a–5. Addition of lands; Naval Amphibious Training Station


There is transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior without reimbursement or transfer of funds, administrative jurisdiction over an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of approximately twenty-one and eight-tenths acres of federally owned land, formerly designated as the Naval Amphibious Training Station, together with any improvements thereon which may exist at the time of the transfer, situated on Ocracoke Island within the village of Ocracoke, County of Hyde, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of North Carolina. The property so transferred shall be administered by the Department of the Interior and shall become a part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), when established.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1953, ch. 191, 67 Stat. 148.)