---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459b–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459b–2"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459b-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459b–2. Establishment

- (a) **Notice in Federal Register—** As soon as practicable after August 7, 1961, and following the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of an acreage in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) described in [section 459b of this title](/usc/16/459b.md) that is in the opinion of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) efficiently administrable to carry out the purposes of sections [459b](/usc/16/459b.md) to [459b–8](/usc/16/459b–8.md) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall establish Cape Cod National Seashore by the publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register.
- (b) **Distribution of notice and map—** Such notice referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall contain a detailed description of the boundaries of the seashore which shall encompass an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as nearly as practicable identical to the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) described in [section 459b of this title](/usc/16/459b.md). The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall forthwith after the date of publication of such notice in the Federal Register (1) send a copy of such notice, together with a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) showing such boundaries, by registered or certified mail to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and to the board of selectmen of each of the towns referred to in [section 459b of this title](/usc/16/459b.md); (2) cause a copy of such notice and [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) to be published in one or more newspapers which circulate in each of such towns; and (3) cause a certified copy of such notice, a copy of such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), and a copy of sections [459b](/usc/16/459b.md) to [459b–8](/usc/16/459b–8.md) of this title to be recorded at the registry of deeds for Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–126, § 3, Aug. 7, 1961, 75 Stat. 288.)