---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460zz–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460zz–1"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460zz-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXI — Mississippi National River and Recreation Area"
  - "Part A — Mississippi National River and Recreation Area"
---

# §460zz–1. Establishment

- (a) **In general—** There is hereby established the Mississippi National River and Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “[Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”) which shall consist of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) designated Mississippi Critical [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) encompassing that portion of the Mississippi River and adjacent lands generally within the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Metropolitan [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), as depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled Mississippi National River and Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) numbered MI–NRA/80,000 and dated April 1987. The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Department of the Interior in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the offices of the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- (b) **Boundaries—** 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)”) shall publish in the Federal Register, as soon as practicable after November 18, 1988, a detailed description and [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) of the boundaries established under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–696, title VII, § 702, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4600.)