Padre Island National Seashore: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 4, a Bill to Provide for the Establishment of the Padre Island National Seashore, April 11 and 13, 1961U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 188 pages Considers legislation to establish the Padre Island National Seashore, Tex. |
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88 miles 88-mile national seashore acres ALAN BIBLE amendment April April 11 area on Padre beach BRYAN Cameron County Cape Hatteras causeway Chairman commercial Commissioner CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservation COOVER Corpus Christi County Park DEAR SENATOR drilling dunes endorse establishment facilities favor fishing Garden Clubs gulf hearing highway Houston Insular Affairs interest Island National Seashore Kleberg County Laguna Madre land lease legislation McCALL million minerals Mustang Island National Park Service national seashore area national seashore recreation Nueces County oil and gas owners Padre Island National Park Board Port Isabel Port Mansfield preservation private development PROCTOR proposed Padre Island protect recommended resolution seashore on Padre seashore recreation area Secretary UDALL Senate Office Building Senator ALLOTT Senator ANDERSON Senator BIBLE Senator DwORSHAK Senator RALPH YARBOROUGH Senator YARBOROUGH shore shoreline statement subcommittee surface Texas Texas Legislature tourist U.S. Senate unspoiled Washington waters wildlife Willacy County
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Page 114 - Any person who has acquired from the United States the coal deposits in any such land, or the right to mine or remove the same, may re-enter and occupy so much of the surface thereof as may be required...
Page 3 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 28 - Secretary shall pay to the owner the fair market value of the property on the date of such acquisition less the fair market value on such date of the right retained by the owner.
Page 3 - An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat.
Page 64 - Ala., do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution...
Page 15 - HOUSE REPORT Senator ALLOTT. Mr. Chairman, before Mr. Webb proceeds on this, I must say this, as a member of the committee : I am fully aware of the prerogatives of the President, this one or any other one to withhold funds that Congress has appropriated. But as a member of the committee and as a Member of the Senate, it seems to me that if we accept Mr. Webb's statement, he cannot ask for more than the House asked for in any item. But if we accept this in the context that the House's word is final,...
Page 47 - The committee will stand in recess until 2 o'clock. (Thereupon, at 12:25 pm, a recess was taken until 2 pm, the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The subcommittee reconvened at 2 pm, upon the expiration of the recess.
Page 26 - Act shall be set aside as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States, and shall be designated as the Padre Island National Park.
Page 27 - States, and said tract is dedicated and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States...
Page 28 - The properties so exchanged shall be approximately equal in fair market value: Provided, That the Secretary may accept cash from or pay cash to the grantor in such an exchange in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.