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Public Law 83–231
To authorize the acquisition by the United States of the remaining non-Federal lands within Big Bend National Park, and for other purposes.
Approved August 8, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the acquisition by the United States of the remaining non-Federal lands within Big Bend National Park, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby 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.
Approved August 8, 1953.