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

# §459g–2. Establishment; notice in Federal Register; copies to Congress


When title to lands and interests in lands in an amount sufficient to constitute an efficiently administerable[^1] [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) for the purposes of sections [459g](/usc/16/459g.md) to [459g–7](/usc/16/459g–7.md) of this title is vested in the United States, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall declare the establishment of the seashore by publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register. Such notice shall contain a refined description or [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) of the boundaries of the seashore as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may find desirable and such exterior boundaries shall encompass, as nearly as possible, the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) generally described in [section 459g of this title](/usc/16/459g.md). Copies of said description or [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be furnished to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate not less than thirty days prior to publication in the Federal Register. Following such establishment, and subject to the limitations and conditions prescribed in sections [459g](/usc/16/459g.md) to [459g–7](/usc/16/459g–7.md) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may, subject to the provisions of [section 459g–1 of this title](/usc/16/459g–1.md), [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) the remainder of the lands and interests in lands within the boundaries of the seashore.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “administrable”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–366, § 3, Mar. 10, 1966, 80 Stat. 35; Pub. L. 93–477, title IV, § 406(3), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1448.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Pub. L. 93–477 substituted “in an amount sufficient to constitute an efficiently administerable [sic] unit for the purposes of sections 459g to 459g–7 of this title” for “which under section 459g–1(a) of this title may be acquired for the purposes of the seashore by donation only”, and “establishment of the seashore by publication” for “establishment of the Cape Lookout National Seashore by publication”.