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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 460s. Establishment

Statutory text

In order to preserve for the benefit, inspiration, education, recreational use, and enjoyment of the public a significant portion of the diminishing shoreline of the United States and its related geographic and scientific features, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) is authorized to take appropriate action, as herein provided, to establish in the State of Michigan the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

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. 89–668 § 1 · 80 Stat. 922

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460s

    (Pub. L. 89–668, § 1, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 922.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–668, § 1, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 922.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Two members to be appointed from recommendations made by the comity in which the lakeshore is situated;

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–668, § 1, , 80 Stat. 922.)

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