---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460u–15"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460u–15"
heading: "Rights-of-way; public access to Little Calumet River"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460u-15"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIX — Indiana Dunes National Park"
---

# §460u–15. Rights-of-way; public access to Little Calumet River


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) only such interest in the right-of-way designated “Crossing A” on [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) numbered 626–91007 as he determines to be necessary to assure public access to the banks of the Little Calumet River within fifty feet north and south of the centerline of said river. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) only such interest in the rights-of-way designated “Crossing B” and “Crossing C” on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) dated October 1986 and numbered 626–80,033–B as he determines to be necessary to assure public access to the banks of the Little Calumet River and the banks of Salt Creek within fifty feet on either side of the centerline of said river and creek.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–761, § 15, formerly § 16, as added and renumbered Pub. L. 94–549, § 1(8), (9), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2531, 2533; amended Pub. L. 99–583, § 1(h), Oct. 29, 1986, 100 Stat. 3320.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–583 inserted provisions relating to acquisition of interests in the rights-of-way designated Crossing B and Crossing C.