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16 U.S.C. § 157d — Additional boundary revision; acquisition of lands and interests

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16 U.S.C. § 157d — Additional boundary revision; acquisition of lands and interests

The boundaries of Big Bend National Park, established by the Act of June 20, 1935 ([16 U.S.C. 156](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section156&num=0&edition=prelim)), are hereby revised to include the lands and interests therein, together with all improvements thereon, within the area comprising approximately sixty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five acres as generally depicted on the map entitled “Harte Ranch Addition, Big Bend National Park”, numbered 155/80,044 and dated September 1987. Such map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands and interests therein, together with all improvements thereon, within the addition described in such map by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange.

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16 U.S.C. § 156 — Establishment; boundaries

When title to such lands as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for recreational park purposes within the boundaries to be determined by him within the area of approximately one million five hundred thousand acres, in the counties of Brewster and Presidio, in the State of Texas, known as the “Big Bend” area, shall have been vested in the United States, such lands shall be established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the “Big Bend National Park”: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public and private donations.

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16 U.S.C. § 156 — Establishment; boundaries

Page 101 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 157 term of not more than six months for each of- fense. (Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 18, 33 Stat. 220; June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837; June 12, 1917, ch. 27, § 1, 40 Stat. 153; Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION A clause of the original text making an appropriation to carry out this provision and a provision for appraise- ment of and payment for all improvements upon the land have been omitted as executed. Provisions requiring the Secretary to cover all money received into the Treasury to the credit of mis- cellaneous receipts were substituted for provisions which permitted the expenditure of such money under the direction of the Secretary for the care and manage- ment of the lands and the preservation of the improve- ments thereon in view of act June 12, 1917, which re- quired the Secretary to cover the receipts of all reve- nues of the national parks into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CHANGE OF NAME Platt National Park designation repealed and areas formerly known as Platt National Park made an inte- gral part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area by Pub. L. 94–235, § 5. See section 460hh–4 of this title. REPEALS Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837, cited as a credit to this section, under which the name of the reservation at the village of Sul- phur established by section 151 of this title, known as Sulphur Springs Reservation, had been renamed Platt National Park in honor of Orville Hitchcock Platt, former senator from Connecticut ‘‘and for many years a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in rec- ognition of his distinguished services to the Indians and t

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16 U.S.C. § 157d — Additional boundary revision; acquisition

Page 102 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 157a 1 See References in Text note below. to in section 156 of this title as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes: Provided, That no land for the Big Bend National Park shall be accepted until ex- clusive jurisdiction over the entire area, in form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the State of Texas to the United States. (June 20, 1935, ch. 283, § 2, 49 Stat. 393.) § 157a. Additional lands; aggregate cost The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest, any land or interests in land situated within sections 15, 22, 27, 34, block 234, Brewster County, Texas, which he shall con- sider to be suitable for addition to the Big Bend National Park: Provided, however, That the ag- gregate cost to the Federal Government of prop- erties acquired hereafter and under the provi- sions hereof shall not exceed the sum of $10,000. Properties acquired pursuant to this section shall become a part of the park upon acquisition of title thereto by the United States. (Aug. 30, 1949, ch. 522, 63 Stat. 679.) § 157b. Additional lands within park boundaries Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to procure, in such manner as he may consider to be in the public interest, the remaining non- Federal land and interests in land within the boundaries of Big Bend National Park. (Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.) § 157c. Boundary revision; acquisition of lands and interests; authorization of appropria- tions The boundary of the Big Bend National Park in the State of Texas is hereby revised to in- clude the lands and interests therein within the

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