Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§460s–8 Inland Buffer Zone

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXXVII — PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE › § 460s–8

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates an inland buffer zone along the lakeshore to protect the land, water, and current uses there. The goal is to keep the shoreline’s setting, protect watersheds and streams, and allow full economic use of renewable resources by using sustained-yield timber practices and other compatible resource management. The buffer zone is the part of the lakeshore shown on the map labeled Proposed Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Boundary Map NL–PR–7100A (July 1966). The Secretary must file that map with the Office of the Federal Register, and it can be viewed at Department of the Interior offices.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460s–8

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(a)Statement of purposes

The area hereinafter described in subsection (b) of this section is hereby established as an inland buffer zone in order to stabilize and protect the existing character and uses of the lands, waters, and other properties within such zone for the purpose of preserving the setting of the shoreline and lakes, protecting the watersheds and streams, and providing for the fullest economic utilization of the renewable resources through sustained yield timber management and other resource management compatible with the purposes of this subchapter.

(b)Description of area; places for examination of map

As used in this subchapter, the term “inland buffer zone” means that part of the lakeshore delineated as such on the map identified as “Proposed Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Boundary Map, NL–PR–7100A, July, 1966”. The Secretary shall file the map with the Office of the Federal Register, and it may also be examined in the Offices of the Department of the Interior.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460s–8

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110