---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459d–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459d–4"
heading: "Administration; utilization of authority for conservation and management of natural resources"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459d-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459d–4. Administration; utilization of authority for conservation and management of natural resources


Except as otherwise provided in sections [459d](/usc/16/459d.md) to [459d–7](/usc/16/459d–7.md) of this title, the property acquired by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) under such sections shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535),[^1] as amended and supplemented, and in accordance with other laws of general application relating to the [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) administered and supervised by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) through the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service; except that authority otherwise available to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) for the conservation and management of natural resources may be utilized to the extent he finds such authority will further the purposes of sections [459d](/usc/16/459d.md) to [459d–7](/usc/16/459d–7.md) of this title.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–712, § 5, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 652.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), referred to in text, is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.