[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 28729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13768]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Establishment of the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

SUMMARY: Notice to announce the formal establishment of the Agate 
Fossil Beds National Monument, effective June 14, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National 
Monument, P.O. Box 27, Gering, Nebraska 69341-0027; or telephone 308-
436-4340.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 89-33 (79 Stat. 123.) approved 
June 5, 1965, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to establish the 
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in the State of Nebraska as a unit 
of the National Park System. The park was authorized to preserve for 
the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations the 
outstanding paleontological sites known as the Agate Springs Fossil 
Quarries, and nearby related geological phenomena, to provide a center 
for continuing paleontological research and for the display and 
interpretation of the scientific specimens uncovered at such sites, and 
to facilitate the protection and exhibition of a valuable collection of 
Native American artifacts and relics that are representative of an 
important phase of Native American history.
    Public Law 89-33 authorized the Secretary of the Interior to 
acquire by donation, or by purchase with donated or appropriated funds, 
or otherwise, title or a lesser interest in not more than three 
thousand one hundred and fifty acres of land in Township 28 North, 
Range 55 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Sioux County, Nebraska, for 
inclusion in the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in accordance with 
the boundary designation made pursuant to Section 2 thereof, which 
boundary may include such right-of-way as is needed for a road between 
the Stenomylus Quarry site and the monument lands lying in Section 3 or 
10 of the said Township and Range.
    Further, upon completion of land acquisition, the Secretary of the 
Interior may establish the park area by publishing a notice in the 
Federal Register, and any subsequent adjustment of its boundaries shall 
be effectuated in the same manner.
    The National Park Service has prepared a map identified as Boundary 
Map of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Drawing Number 165/80,023, 
dated May 1997, which depicts the boundaries established by this 
notice. A copy of the map is available at the following locations: The 
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Land Resources 
Division, 1849 ``C'' Street, NW, Room 2444, Washington, D.C. 20240; the 
National Park Service, Midwest Field Area, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha, 
Nebraska 68102; and Scotts Bluff National Monument or Agate Fossil Beds 
National Monument at the address listed above.

    Dated: May 13, 1997.
William W. Schenk,
Field Director, Midwest Field Area.
[FR Doc. 97-13768 Filed 5-23-97; 8:45 am]
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