---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460hh–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460hh–5"
heading: "Concurrent legislative jurisdiction with State of Oklahoma; requisites; notice in Federal Register"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460hh-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XCII — Chickasaw National Recreation Area"
---

# §460hh–5. Concurrent legislative jurisdiction with State of Oklahoma; requisites; notice in Federal Register


Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 153 of this title](/usc/16/153.md), which retain exclusive jurisdiction in the United States, upon notification in writing to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) by the appropriate [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) officials of the acceptance by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oklahoma of concurrent legislative jurisdiction over the lands formerly within the Platt National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall publish a notice to that effect in the Federal Register and, upon such publication, concurrent legislative jurisdiction over such lands is hereby ceded to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oklahoma: Provided, That such cession of jurisdiction shall not occur until a written agreement has been reached between the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oklahoma and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) providing for the exercise of concurrent jurisdiction over all other lands and waters within the Chickasaw National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–235, § 6, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.)