[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 80 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
S.80
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three
An Act
To increase the size of the Big Thicket National Preserve in the State
of Texas by adding the Village Creek corridor unit, the Big Sandy
corridor unit, and the Canyonlands unit.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be referred to as the ``Big Thicket National Preserve
Addition Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO THE BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE.
(a) Additions.--Subsection (b) of the first section of the Act
entitled ``An Act to authorize the establishment of the Big Thicket
National Preserve in the State of Texas, and for other purposes'',
approved October 11, 1974 (16 U.S.C. 698), hereafter referred to as the
``Act'', is amended as follows:
(1) Strike out ``map entitled `Big Thicket National Preserve'''
and all that follows through ``Secretary of the Interior (hereafter
referred to as the `Secretary')'' and insert in lieu thereof ``map
entitled `Big Thicket National Preserve', dated October 1992, and
numbered 175-80008, which shall be on file and available for public
inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department
of the Interior, and the offices of the Superintendent of the
preserve. After advising the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Natural
Resources of the United States House of Representatives, in writing,
the Secretary of the Interior (hereafter referred to as the
`Secretary') may make minor revisions of the boundaries of the
preserve when necessary by publication of a revised drawing or other
boundary description in the Federal Register. The Secretary''.
(2) Strike out ``and'' at the end of the penultimate
undesignated paragraph relating to Little Pine Island-Pine Island
Bayou corridor unit.
(3) Strike out the period in the ultimate undesignated paragraph
relating to Lance Rosier unit and insert in lieu thereof ``;''.
(4) Add at the end thereof the following:
``Village Creek Corridor unit, Hardin County, Texas, comprising
approximately four thousand seven hundred and ninety-three acres;
``Big Sandy Corridor unit, Hardin, Polk, and Tyler Counties,
Texas, comprising approximately four thousand four hundred and
ninety-seven acres; and
``Canyonlands unit, Tyler County, Texas, comprising
approximately one thousand four hundred and seventy-six acres.''.
(b) Acquisition.--(1) Subsection (c) of the first section of such
Act is amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in lieu
thereof the following: ``The Secretary is authorized to acquire by
donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, transfer from any
other Federal agency, or exchange, any lands, waters, or interests
therein which are located within the boundaries of the preserve:
Provided, That privately owned lands located within the Village Creek
Corridor, Big Sandy Corridor, and Canyonlands units may be acquired only
with the consent of the owner: Provided further, That the Secretary may
acquire lands owned by commercial timber companies only by donation or
exchange: Provided further, That any lands owned by the State of Texas,
or any political subdivisions thereof may be acquired by donation
only.''.
(2) Add at the end of the first section of such Act the following
new subsections:
``(d) Within sixty days after the date of enactment of this
subsection, the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture shall
identify lands within their jurisdiction located within the vicinity of
the preserve which may be suitable for exchange for commercial timber
lands within the preserve. In so doing, the Secretary of Agriculture
shall seek to identify for exchange National Forest lands that are near
or adjacent to private lands that are already owned by the commercial
timber companies. Such National Forest lands shall be located in the
Sabine National Forest in Sabine County, Texas, in the Davy Crockett
National Forest south of Texas State Highway 7, or in other sites deemed
mutually agreeable, and within reasonable distance of the timber
companies' existing mills. In exercising this exchange authority, the
Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture may utilize any authorities
or procedures otherwise available to them in connection with land
exchanges, and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this Act.
Land exchanges authorized pursuant to this subsection shall be of equal
value and shall be completed as soon as possible, but no later than two
years after date of enactment of this subsection.
``(e) With respect to the thirty-seven-acre area owned by the
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation or its subsidiary, Kirby Forest
Industries, Inc., on Big Sandy Creek in Hardin County, Texas, and now
utilized as part of the Indian Springs Youth Camp (H.G. King Abstract
822), the Secretary shall not acquire such area without the consent of
the owner so long as the area is used exclusively as a youth camp.''.
(c) Publication of Boundary Description.--Not later than six months
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall
publish in the Federal Register a detailed description of the boundary
of the Village Creek Corridor unit, the Big Sandy Corridor unit, and the
Canyonlands unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve.
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 6 of such Act is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence:
``Effective upon date of enactment of this sentence, there is authorized
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of subsections (c) and (d) of the first section.''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.