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

# §459i–7. Water resource developments


The authority of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Army to undertake or contribute to water resource developments, including shore erosion control, beach protection and navigation improvements on land and/or waters within the Cumberland Island National Seashore shall be exercised in accordance with plans which are mutually acceptable to 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 and which are consistent with both the purpose of sections [459i](/usc/16/459i.md) to [459i–9](/usc/16/459i–9.md) of this title and the purpose of existing statutes dealing with water and related land resource development.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–536, § 8, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1068.)