16 U.S.C. § 160f — Administration

(a) Authority of the Secretary. Except as this section otherwise provides, the Secretary manages the land bought for the park. Once the park is established, the Secretary keeps managing it. The Secretary must follow the Act of August 25, 1916, as amended and supplemented — the law that created and governs the National Park Service. (b) Wilderness study. Within four years of the park's establishment, the Secretary of the Interior must review the area inside Voyageurs National Park. The Secretary then reports to the President. The report must follow the rules in subsections (c) and (d) of section 1132 of this title. The report gives the Secretary's recommendation on whether any area is suitable, or not suitable, to become protected "wilderness." Any designation of an area as wilderness must also follow those same rules. By June 1, 1983, the President must tell the United States Senate and House of Representatives the President's own recommendations on which areas within the park are or aren't suitable as wilderness. (c) Mining and water power banned. All mining, mineral activity, and commercial water power development are prohibited anywhere inside the park's boundaries. Further, whenever the State of Minnesota conveys land to the park, that conveyance must contain a covenant — a binding promise. Minnesota, and anyone who later holds rights through Minnesota (its licensees, permittees, lessees, assigns, or successors in interest), must never engage in or allow any mining activity or water power development on that land.