Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§460x–1 Description of Area

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LXXXII— SLEEPING BEAR DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE › § 460x–1

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore using the land and water shown on a map titled "A Proposed Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Boundary Map", map number NL–SBD–91,000, dated May 1969, which is kept for public viewing at National Park Service offices. After October 21, 1970, once the Secretary of the Interior buys the State of Michigan lands inside that boundary (except up to 300 acres in the Platte Bay area) and any other lands needed to make the area easy to manage, the Secretary must officially set up the lakeshore by publishing a notice in the Federal Register as soon as possible.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460x–1

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(a)The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (hereinafter referred to as the “lakeshore”) shall comprise the land and water area generally depicted on the map entitled “A Proposed Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Boundary Map”, numbered NL–SBD–91,000 and dated May 1969, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior.

(b)As soon as practicable after October 21, 1970, and following the acquisition by the Secretary of those lands owned by the State of Michigan within the boundaries of the area designated for inclusion in the lakeshore (excepting not to exceed three hundred acres in the Platte Bay area) and of such additional lands, if any, as are necessary to provide an area which in his opinion is efficiently administrable for the purposes of this subchapter, he shall establish the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore by publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460x–1

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60