Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§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 Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore using the land and water shown on the boundary map numbered NL–SBD–91,000 dated May 1969, which is kept at the National Park Service offices and open for public inspection. 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 extra lands needed to make the park workable, he must create the lakeshore by publishing a notice in the Federal Register.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460x–1

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(a)In general

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)Establishment; notice in Federal Register

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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110