---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460x–15"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460x–15"
heading: "Lakeshore wilderness report; administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460x-15"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXII — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore"
---

# §460x–15. Lakeshore wilderness report; administration


In accordance with [section 1132(c) of this title](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c), the President shall, no later than June 1, 1983, advise the United States Senate and House of Representatives of his recommendations with respect to the suitability or nonsuitability as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) of any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the lakeshore. Subject to existing private rights, the [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) described in the report prepared by the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service entitled “[Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) Recommendation; Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore” dated January, 1981, and recommended for [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) (approximately 7,128 acres) and for potential [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) (approximately 23,775 acres) shall, until Congress determines otherwise, be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) so as to maintain their presently existing [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) character and potential for inclusion in the [National Wilderness Preservation System](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–479, § 16, as added Pub. L. 97–361, § 5, Oct. 22, 1982, 96 Stat. 1724.)