---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aaa–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aaa–1"
heading: "Boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aaa-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXII — Grand Island National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aaa–1. Boundaries


The national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall comprise all of the Grand Island in Lake Superior, Michigan, and all associated rocks, pinnacles, and islands and islets within one-quarter mile of the shore of Grand Island. The boundaries of the Hiawatha National Forest are hereby extended to include all of the lands within the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A). All such extended boundaries shall be deemed boundaries in existence as of January 1, 1965, for the purposes of sections 100506(c) and 200306 of title 54. All federally owned lands within the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) on May 17, 1990, are hereby components of the National Forest System and shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture as provided in this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–292, § 2, May 17, 1990, 104 Stat. 185.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “sections 100506(c) and 200306 of title 54” substituted for “section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–9)” on authority of Pub. L. 113–287, § 6(e), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which Act enacted Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.