---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 674a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "674a"
heading: "Sullys Hill National Park; transfer of control; change of name to White Horse Hill National Game Preserve; boundaries; use by public; hunting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/674a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §674a. Sullys Hill National Park; transfer of control; change of name to White Horse Hill National Game Preserve; boundaries; use by public; hunting


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall administer Sullys Hill National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), together with all improvements thereon, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of North Dakota, as a big game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2), refuge, and breeding grounds for wild animals and birds, which shall be known as the White Horse Hill National Game [Preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and shall embrace within its boundaries the lands described in the proclamation of June 2, 1904, establishing Sullys Hill [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), together with all unsurveyed or [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) uncovered by the recession of the waters of Devils Lake in front of said reservation, the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) to be bounded on the north and northwest by the waters of Devils Lake, and on the west and southwest by a stream which flows through lands uncovered by the recession of the waters of Devils Lake, approximately midway between lots 10 and 11, [section 17](/usc/16/17.md); lots 1, 2, 6, and 8, [section 16](/usc/16/16.md); and lot 2, [section 9](/usc/16/9.md); lots 3, 4, and 5, [section 16](/usc/16/16.md), township 152 north, range 65 west, fifth principal meridian, as meandered on the official plats of survey approved June 23, 1904, and June 2, 1927: Provided, That the said game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) is to be made available to the public for recreational purposes insofar as consistent with the use of this [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as a game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2): Provided further, That hunting shall not be permitted on said game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 439, § 1, 46 Stat. 1509; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 116–94, div. P, title IV, § 402(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3191.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–94 substituted “White Horse Hill National Game Preserve” for “Sullys Hill National Game Preserve” in text.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Pub. L. 116–94, div. P, title IV, § 402(c), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3191, provided that: “Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Sullys Hill National Game Preserve shall be considered to be a reference to the ‘White Horse Hill National Game Preserve’.”

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.