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

# §459j–7. Report to President


Within three years from January 3, 1975, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall review the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the seashore and shall report to the President, in accordance with [section 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d) of this title, his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the seashore for preservation as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13), and any designation of any such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as a [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) shall be accomplished in accordance with [section 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–626, § 8, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2125.)