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

# §459a–5a. Addition of lands; Hatteras


The tracts of excess [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) and improvements thereon in the village of Hatteras, Dare County, North Carolina, bearing General Services Administration control numbers T–NC–442 and C–NC–444, comprising forty-three one-hundredths and one and five-tenths acres of land, respectively, the exact descriptions for which shall be determined by the [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) of General Services, are transferred, without exchange of funds, to the administrative jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to be administered as a part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), authorized by sections [459](/usc/16/459.md) to [459a–3](/usc/16/459a–3.md) of this title, and shall be subject to all the laws and regulations applicable thereto.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–540, July 18, 1958, 72 Stat. 398.)