---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460w–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460w–1"
heading: "Boundaries not to include lands held in trust by United States for Red Cliff Band or Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians; exceptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460w-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXI — Apostle Islands National Lakeshore"
---

# §460w–1. Boundaries not to include lands held in trust by United States for Red Cliff Band or Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians; exceptions


No lands held in [trust](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=4) by the United States for either the Red Cliff Band or Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, or for allottees thereof, shall be acquired or included within the boundaries of the lakeshore established by this subchapter, with the following exception:

If the Indians who own more than 50 per centum of the interest in allotment number 74 GL or allotment number 135 in the Red Cliff Reservation agree to sell the allotment to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)”), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may consent to the sale on behalf of the other [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4), purchase the allotment for the negotiated price and revise the boundaries of the lakeshore to include the allotment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–424, § 2, Sept. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 880.)