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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3354
To include in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, the land and 
facilities comprising St. Marks lighthouse. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2003
Mr. BOYD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee 
on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To include in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, 
the land and facilities comprising St. Marks lighthouse.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF LIGHTHOUSE IN ST. MARKS NA-
TIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, FLORIDA. 
(a) REVOCATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER DATED NO-
VEMBER 12, 1838.—Any reservation of public land de-
scribed in subsection (b) for lighthouse purposes by the 
Executive Order dated November 12, 1838, as amended
by Public Land Order 5655, dated January 9, 1979, is 
revoked. 
(b) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The public land re-
ferred to in subsection (a) consists of approximately 8 
acres within the external boundaries of St. Marks National 
Wildlife Refuge in Wakulla County, Florida, that is east 
of the Tallahassee Meridian, Florida, in Township 5 
South, Range 1 East, Section 1 (fractional) and con-
taining all that remaining portion of the unsurveyed frac-
tional section, more particularly described as follows: A 
parcel of land, including submerged areas, beginning at 
a point which marks the center of the light structure, 
thence due North (magnetic) a distance of 350 feet to the 
point of beginning a strip of land 500 feet in width, the 
axial centerline of which runs from the point of beginning 
due South (magnetic) a distance of 700 feet, more or less, 
to the shoreline of Apalachee Bay, comprising 8.0 acres, 
more or less, as shown on plat dated January 2, 1902, 
by Office of L. H. Engineers, 7th and 8th District, Mobile, 
Alabama. 
(c) TRANSFER
OF
ADMINISTRATIVE
JURISDIC-
TION.—Subject to subsection (e), administrative jurisdic-
tion over the public land described in subsection (b), and 
over all improvements, structures, and fixtures located 
thereon, is transferred from the department in which the
Coast Guard is operating to the Secretary of the Interior, 
without reimbursement. 
(d) INCLUSION IN REFUGE.—
(1) INCLUSION.—The public land described in 
subsection (b) shall be part of St. Marks National 
Wildlife Refuge. 
(2) ADMINISTRATION.—Subject to subsection 
(e), the Secretary of the Interior shall administer the 
public land described in subsection (b)—
(A) through the Director United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service; and 
(B) in accordance with the National Wild-
life Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 
(16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.) and such other laws 
as apply to Federal real property under the sole 
jurisdiction of the United States Fish and Wild-
life Service. 
(e) MAINTENANCE OF NAVIGATION FUNCTIONS.—
The transfer under subsection (c), and the administration 
of the public land described in subsection (b), shall be sub-
ject to such conditions and restrictions as the Secretary 
of Homeland Security considers necessary to ensure 
that—
(1) the Federal aids to navigation located at St. 
Marks National Wildlife Refuge continue to be oper-
ated and maintained by the Coast Guard for as long 
as they are needed for navigational purposes; 
(2) the Coast Guard may remove, replace, or 
install any Federal aid to navigation at the St. 
Marks National Wildlife Refuge as may be necessary 
for navigational purposes; 
(3) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
will not interfere or allow interference in any man-
ner with any Federal aid to navigation, nor hinder 
activities required for the operation and maintenance 
of any Federal aid to navigation, without express 
written approval by the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity; and 
(4) the Coast Guard may, at any time, enter 
the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, without no-
tice, for purposes of operating, maintaining, and in-
specting any Federal aid to navigation and ensuring 
compliance with this subsection, to the extent that 
it is not possible to provide advance notice.
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