[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 98 (Monday, May 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29351-29352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-4709]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Boundary Revision, Big Thicket National Preserve

SUMMARY: This notice announces the revision to the boundary of Big 
Thicket National Preserve to include the parcel of land known as Tract 
223-09. The United States will acquire this tract from The Conservation 
Fund upon the revision of the boundary. The National Park Service has 
determined that this boundary revision is necessary and that the 
acquisition of this tract would make a significant contribution to the 
purposes for which the preserve was created.

DATES: The effective date of this boundary revision is the date on 
which this notice is published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Big Thicket National 
Preserve, 6044 Farm Road 420, Kountze, Texas 77625 or by telephone 409-
951-6700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act establishing Big Thicket National 
Preserve, as amended in 1993, 16 U.S.C. 698(b), provides that, after 
notifying the House Committee on Resources and the Senate Committee on 
Energy and Resources, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to 
make this boundary revision. This action will add one parcel composed 
of 200 acres of land to Big Thicket National Preserve. The National 
Park Service proposes to purchase this parcel from The Conservation 
Fund. This parcel is bounded on the north, south, and east by the 
preserve. The acquisition of this parcel is required to maintain the 
ecology and the present rural character for which the preserve was 
created.
    The above parcel is depicted as tract number 223-09 on land 
acquisition segment map 223, having drawing number 175-80,010 dated 
November, 2004. This map is on file at the National Park Service Land 
Resources Program Center, Intermountain Region, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 
and at the Office of the

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Superintendent at Big Thicket National Preserve, Kountze, Texas.

Michael D. Snyder,
Director, Intermountain Region.
[FR Doc. 06-4709 Filed 5-19-06; 8:45 am]
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