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[CITE: 16USC160a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XIX--VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 160a. Establishment; notice in Federal Register; donation 
        of lands; acquisition by purchase of other lands
        
    In furtherance of the purpose of this subchapter, the Secretary of 
the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the ``Secretary'') is 
authorized to establish the Voyageurs National Park (hereinafter 
referred to as the ``park'') in the State of Minnesota, by publication 
of notice to that effect in the Federal Register at such time as the 
Secretary deems sufficient interests in lands or waters have been 
acquired for administration in accordance with the purposes of this 
subchapter: Provided, That the Secretary shall not establish the park 
until the lands owned by the State of Minnesota and any of its political 
subdivisions within the boundaries shall have been donated to the 
Secretary for the purposes of the park: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall not acquire other lands by purchase for the park prior 
to such donation unless he finds that acquisition is necessary to 
prevent irreparable changes in their uses or character of such a nature 
as to make them unsuitable for park purposes and notifies the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on 
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives of such findings at 
least thirty days prior to such acquisition.

(Pub. L. 91-661, Sec. 101, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1970; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 6(f), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4585.)

                          Codification

    Section formerly consisted of sections 101 and 102 of Pub. L. 91-
661. Section 102 of Pub. L. 91-661 was substantially amended and 
expanded by Pub. L. 97-405, Sec. 1(1), (2), Jan. 3, 1983, 96 Stat. 2028, 
and as thus amended is set out as section 160a-1 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives'' for ``Committees on Interior and Insular 
Affairs of both the Senate and the House of Representatives''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
