16 U.S.C. § 408g
Submerged lands surrounding islands
United States · Title 16 — CONSERVATION · Status: effective
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- 16 U.S.C. § 408g, Submerged lands surrounding islands, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/443630
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The boundaries of the Isle Royale National Park are hereby extended to include any submerged lands within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States within four and one-half miles of the shoreline of Isle Royale and the surrounding islands, including Passage Island and the Gull Islands, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to acquire title by donation to any such lands not now owned by the United States, the title to be satisfactory to him.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to designate certain lands within units of the national park system as wilderness; to revise the boundaries of certain of those units, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally