Boundary establishment, descriptions, etc.: Big Thicket National Preserve, Beaumont Unit, TX,

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Federal Register: November 12, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 218)NoticesPage 61660From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Boundary Revision, Beaumont Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve

DATES: The effective date of this Order shall be November 12, 1999.

SUMMARY: Section 1 of the Act of October 11, 1974, Pub. L. 93-439, 88 Stat. 1254, codified as amended at 16 U.S.C. 698 (1994), authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, after advising the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, in writing, of his intention to do so and of the reasons therefor, to accept title to any lands or interests in lands located outside the boundaries of the preserve which any private person, organization, or public or private corporation may offer to donate to the United States, if he finds that such lands would make a significant contribution to the purposes for which the preserve was created.

Notice is hereby given that, effective on the date of publication of this notice, the boundary of the Beaumont Unit of Big Thicket National Preserve is being revised pursuant to the above-cited act to include those lands owned by Citgo Pipeline Co., comprised of 26.20 acres of land, depicted as Tract No. 189-38 on land acquisition status map, segment 189, having drawing number 175-30,009, dated May 27, 1999, prepared by Land Resources Program Center, Intermountain Region of the National Park Service.

This map is on file and available for inspection in the office of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Land Resources Program Center, Intermountain Region, and the office of the Superintendent, Big Thicket National Preserve.

Dated: September 9, 1999. John H. King. Acting Regional Director, Intermountain, National Park Service.

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