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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 157b. Additional lands within park boundaries

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Secretary of the Interior is 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.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. (Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.) · 67 Stat. 497

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 157b

    (Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)

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Credits

(Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)

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