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[CITE: 16USC160a-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XIX--VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 160a-1. Boundaries


(a) Lands and waters included; legal description; revision

    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the park shall 
include the lands and waters within the boundaries as generally depicted 
on the drawing entitled ``A Proposed Voyageurs National Park, 
Minnesota,'' numbered LNPMW-VOYA-1001, dated February 1969, which shall 
be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Within one year after 
acquisition of the lands owned by the State of Minnesota and its 
political subdivisions within the boundaries of the park the Secretary 
shall affix to such drawing an exact legal description of said 
boundaries. The Secretary may revise the boundaries of the park from 
time to time by publishing in the Federal Register a revised drawing or 
other boundary description, but such revisions shall not increase the 
land acreage within the park by more than one thousand acres.

(b) Additional revisions; procedures applicable; failure to comply with 
        procedures

    (1) In addition to such revisions as the Secretary may make in the 
boundaries of the park from time to time pursuant to other provisions of 
law, the Secretary may, according to the provisions of subsection (a) of 
this section--
        (A) delete approximately 782 acres in the Neil Point area of the 
    park;
        (B) add approximately 180 acres in the Black Bay Narrows areas 
    of the park;
        (C) add approximately 18.45 acres owned by the State of 
    Minnesota at the Kabetogama Forestry Station;
        (D) add approximately 120 acres owned by the State of Minnesota, 
    being a strip of land through that portion of section 1, township 68 
    north, range 20 west, fourth principal meridian, which is parallel 
    to and 400 feet on both sides of the unimproved road extending 
    northward from the Ash River Trail as such road crosses each 
    section; and
        (E) subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), delete 
    approximately 1,000 acres at Black Bay and convey such lands to the 
    State of Minnesota.

All of the aforementioned boundary changes if accomplished shall be 
accomplished such that the boundary of the park shall conform to that 
generally depicted on the drawing entitled ``Boundary, Voyageurs 
National Park, United States Department of the Interior, National Park 
Service'', numbered 172-80, 008-MWR, and dated November 1981, which 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of 
the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
    (2) The Secretary may not delete or convey the lands referred to in 
paragraph (1)(E) unless, prior to or simultaneously with such deletion 
or conveyance and in consideration of such conveyance, the State of 
Minnesota--
        (A) tenders a conveyance of the lands described in paragraph 
    (1)(C) and (D) to the United States by such instrument and in such 
    manner as are satisfactory to the Secretary, including but not 
    limited to lease or easement: Provided, That if the interest 
    conveyed is a lease or easement, the State of Minnesota shall 
    substitute therefore a transfer of all right, title, and interest in 
    the land by June 30, 1987: Provided further, That if the State does 
    not transfer all right, title, and interest in such lands by June 
    30, 1987, the land described in paragraph 1(E) shall revert to the 
    United States for administration by the Secretary as part of the 
    park; and
        (B) enters into a recordable agreement satisfactory to the 
    Secretary which provides that--
            (i) the State has established a wildlife management area in 
        the area authorized to be deleted and conveyed to the State by 
        paragraph (1)(E);
            (ii) the State has prepared a plan acceptable to the 
        Secretary to manage all the waters of and State lands riparian 
        to Black Bay (including all of the State-owned lands and waters 
        of Rainy Lake) to preserve the natural resources of the area so 
        as to complement to the fullest extent possible the purposes for 
        which the park was established;
            (iii) the State shall not transfer any right, title, or 
        interest in, or control over, any land described in paragraph 
        (1)(E) to any person other than the Secretary; and
            (iv) the State shall permit access by the Secretary at 
        reasonable times to the land described in paragraph (1)(E).

    (3) If at any time the State fails to comply with the material 
requirements of the agreement referred to in paragraph (2)(B), all 
right, title, and interest in the land described in paragraph (1)(E) 
shall revert to the United States for administration by the Secretary as 
part of the park. Such reversion shall take effect upon the delivery by 
the Secretary of notice to the State respecting such failure to comply 
without further notice or requirement for physical entry by the 
Secretary unless an action for judicial review is brought in the United 
States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit within ninety days 
following such notice. In any such action the court may issue such 
orders as are appropriate to carry out the requirements of this 
subsection.

(Pub. L. 91-661, Sec. 102, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1970; Pub. L. 97-405, 
Sec. 1(1), (2), Jan. 3, 1983, 96 Stat. 2028.)

                          Codification

    Provisions of section 102 of Pub. L. 91-661 [this section] were 
formerly set out as an undesignated second paragraph in section 160a of 
this title prior to amendment by Pub. L. 97-405.


                               Amendments

    1983--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-405, Sec. 1(1), substituted ``(a) 
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the park'' for 
``The park''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-405, Sec. 1(2), added subsec. (b).
