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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§460u–20 Paul H. Douglas Ecological and Recreational Unit and Center for Environmental Education

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LXXIX— INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK › § 460u–20

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Indiana Dunes National Park is dedicated in honor of Paul H. Douglas for his work to protect and improve the park for current and future visitors. The Secretary of the Interior must name the park’s west unit the Paul H. Douglas Ecological and Recreational Unit. If Congress provides funding, the Secretary must build or use a building in the park called the Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education. The center will mainly teach students and visitors three things: the park’s natural history and its ties to the Great Lakes, how people have used and changed the area, and the historical reasons Congress created the park. The Secretary must also put up signs, maps, displays, publications, and programs to explain Douglas’s contributions.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460u–20

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(a)The Indiana Dunes National Park is hereby dedicated to the memory of Paul H. Douglas in grateful recognition of his leadership in the effort to protect, preserve, and enhance the natural, scientific, historic, and recreational value of the Park for the use, enjoyment, and edification of present and future generations.
(b)To further accomplish the purposes of subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall designate the west unit of the Park as the “Paul H. Douglas Ecological and Recreational Unit” and shall, subject to appropriations being granted, design and construct a suitable structure or designate an existing structure within the Park to be known as the “Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education” which shall provide facilities designed primarily to familiarize students and other visitors with, among other things: (1) the natural history of the Park and its association with the natural history of the Great Lakes region; (2) the evolution of human activities in the area; and (3) the historical features which led to the establishment of the Park by the Congress of the United States.
(c)To inform the public of the contributions of Paul H. Douglas to the creation of the Park, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide such signs, markers, maps, interpretive materials, literature, and programs as he deems appropriate.

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2019—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–6 substituted “National Park” for “National Lakeshore” and “Park” for “lakeshore”. Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 116–6, § 115(a)(1)(B), substituted “Park” for “lakeshore” wherever appearing.

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16 U.S.C. § 460u–20

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60