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

# §459f. Assateague Island National Seashore; purposes; description of area


For the purpose of protecting and developing Assateague Island in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of Maryland and Virginia and certain adjacent waters and small marsh islands for public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment, the Assateague Island National Seashore (hereinafter referred to as the “seashore”) shall be established and administered in accordance with the provisions of sections 459f to [459f–11](/usc/16/459f–11.md) of this title. The seashore shall comprise the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within Assateague Island and the small marsh islands adjacent thereto, together with the adjacent water [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) not more than one-half mile beyond the mean high waterline of the land portions as generally depicted on a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) identified as “Proposed Assateague Island National Seashore, Boundary [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), NS–AI–7100A, November, 1964”, which [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Department of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–195, § 1, Sept. 21, 1965, 79 Stat. 824.)