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Public Law 87–78
To revise the boundaries and to change the name of Fort Vancouver National Monument, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.
Approved June 30, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To revise the boundaries and to change the name of Fort Vancouver National Monument, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, for the purpose of preserving certain historic properties associated with the Fort Vancouver National Monument, established pursuant to the Act of June 19, 1948, chapter 646 (62 Stat. 532; 16 U.S.C. 450ff–450ff–2), the Secretary of the Interior may revise the boundaries of the monument to include therein not more than one hundred and thirty additional acres of land adjacent to, contiguous to, or in the vicinity of, the existing monument.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior may acquire in such manner
Land acquisition.
as he may consider to be in the public interest the non-Federal lands and interests in lands within the revised boundaries.
Sec. 3.
The heads of executive departments may transfer to the
Transfer authority.
Secretary of the Interior, without exchange of funds, administrative jurisdiction over such federally owned lands and other property under their administrative jurisdictions within the revised boundary as may become excess to the needs of their respective agencies, for inclusion in the Fort Vancouver National Monument.
Sec. 4.
Fort Vancouver National Monument is redesignated Fort
Redesignation.
Vancouver National Historic Site.
Approved June 30, 1961.