PUBLIC LAW 94-174—DEC. 23, 1975
89 STAT. 1029
Public Law 94-174 94th Congress An Act To authorize an exchange of lands for an entrance road at Guadalupt? Mountains National Park, Texas, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (b) of section 2 of the Act approved October 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 920), providing for the establishment of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in the State of Texas, is amended by adding the following after the third sentence: "In order to provide for an adequate entrance road into the McKittrick Canyon area of the park, the Secretary may accept title to and interests in lands comprising a right-of-way for a road or roads outside of the boundary of the park from United States Highway numbered 62 and 180 to the park boundary, and in exchange therefor he may convey title to and interests in lands comprising a right-of-way from said highway to the boundary which have been donated to the United States. The Secretary may accept cash from or pay cash to the grantor in such exchange in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged. Lands and interests in lands comprising the right-of-way acquired pursuant to this subsection shall be administered as part of the park.". Approved December 23 1975.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-683 accompanying H.R. 1747 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). SENATE REPORT No. 94-164 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 121 (1975): June 4, considered and passed Senate. Dec. 1, considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 1747. Dec. 17, Senate concurred in House amendment.
Dec. 23, 1975 [S. 313]
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Tex. Lands exchange. 16 USC 283a.
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