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[CITE: 16USC675]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
             CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
 
Sec. 675. Norbeck Wildlife Preserve; establishment

    There is designated as the Norbeck Wildlife Preserve such areas, not 
exceeding forty-six thousand acres, of the Harney National Forest, and 
adjoining or in the vicinity of the Custer State Park, in the State of 
South Dakota, as should, in the opinion of the President of the United 
States, be set aside for the protection of game animals and birds, and 
be recognized as a breeding place therefor.

(June 5, 1920, ch. 247, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 986; June 7, 1924, ch. 324, 43 
Stat. 632; Oct. 6, 1949, ch. 620, Sec. 1, 63 Stat. 708.)

                          Codification

    As enacted by act June 5, 1920, this section authorized the 
President to designate areas not exceeding 30,000 acres, but by 
amendment by act June 7, 1924, the President was authorized, upon 
recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, to enlarge the area by 
proclamation to embrace a total of not to exceed 46,000 acres and the 
provisions of sections 676 to 678 of this title, apply with equal force 
to the additional area.

                         Change of Name

    ``Custer State Park Game Sanctuary'' changed to ``Norbeck Wildlife 
Preserve'' by act Oct. 6, 1949.
    Harney National Forest abolished and its lands transferred to and 
consolidated with those of Black Hills National Forest by Public Land 
Order No. 1016 of Oct. 4, 1954, 19 F.R. 6500.


                        Presidential Designation

    Areas comprising the Norbeck Wildlife Preserve, formerly known as 
the Custer State Park Game Sanctuary, were designated by Proclamations 
of Oct. 9, 1920 (41 Stat. 1805), Jan. 8, 1925 (43 Stat. 1981), and Jan. 
14, 1929 (45 Stat. 2985).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 676, 678a of this title.
