---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459f–7"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459f–7"
heading: "Beach erosion control and hurricane protection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459f-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459f–7. Beach erosion control and hurricane protection


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Army shall cooperate in the study and formulation of plans for beach erosion control and hurricane protection of the seashore; and any such protective works that are undertaken by the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, shall be carried out in accordance with a plan that is acceptable to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and is consistent with the purposes of sections [459f](/usc/16/459f.md) to [459f–11](/usc/16/459f–11.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–195, § 8, Sept. 21, 1965, 79 Stat. 827.)