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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 460aaa. Establishment

Statutory text

In order to preserve and protect for present and future generations the outstanding resources and values of Grand Island in Lake Superior, Michigan, and for the purposes of providing for the conservation, protection, and enhancement of its scenery, recreation, fish and wildlife, vegetation and historical and cultural resources, there is hereby established the Grand Island National Recreation Area (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “national recreation area”). These resources and values include, but are not limited to, cliffs, caves, beaches, forested appearance, natural biological diversity, and features of early settlement.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 101–292 § 1 · 104 Stat. 185

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460aaa

    (Pub. L. 101–292, § 1, May 17, 1990, 104 Stat. 185.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 101–292, § 1, May 17, 1990, 104 Stat. 185.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF GRAND ISLAND NATIONAL RECREATION AREA. In order to preserve and protect for present and future generations the outstanding resources and values of Grand Island in Lake Superior, Michigan, and for the purposes of providing for the conservation, protection, and enhancement of its scenery, recreation, fish and wildlife, vegetation and historical and cultural resources, there is hereby established the Grand Island National Recreation Area (hereafter in this Act referred to as the “national recreation area”). These resources and values include, but are not limited to, cliffs, caves, beaches, forested appearance, natural biological diversity, and features of early settlement.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 101–292, § 1, , 104 Stat. 185.)

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