---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459c–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459c–4"
heading: "Point Reyes National Seashore"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459c-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459c–4. Point Reyes National Seashore

- (a) **Establishment; notice in Federal Register—** As soon as practicable after September 13, 1962, 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 459c–1 of this title](/usc/16/459c–1.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 [459c](/usc/16/459c.md) to [459c–7](/usc/16/459c–7.md) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall establish Point Reyes 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 459c–1 of this title](/usc/16/459c–1.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 [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) and to the governing body of each of the political [subdivisions](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) involved; (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 the localities; 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 [459c](/usc/16/459c.md) to [459c–7](/usc/16/459c–7.md) of this title to be recorded at the registry of deeds for the county involved.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–657, § 4, formerly § 5, Sept. 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 540; renumbered § 4, Pub. L. 91–223, § 2(c), Apr. 3, 1970, 84 Stat. 90.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Amended Description of Boundaries of Point Reyes National Seashore; Publication in Federal Register

Pub. L. 93–550, title II, § 202, Dec. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1744, provided that: “The Secretary of the Interior shall, as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this title [Dec. 26, 1974], publish an amended description of the boundaries of the Point Reyes National Seashore in the Federal Register, and thereafter he shall take such action with regard to such amended description and the map referred to in section 201 of this title [amending section 459c–1 of this title] as is required in the second sentence of subsection (b) of section 4 of the act of September 13, 1962, as amended [subsec. (b) of this section].”