An Act to provide for the establishment of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in the State of Texas, and for other purposes
PL 89-667 (H.R.698), enacted 10/15/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-667-OCT. 15, 1966 
[80 
STAT. 
Public Law 89-667 
AN ACT 
October 15, 1966 
[H, R. 698] 
To provide for the establishment of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park 
in the 'State of Texas, and for other purposes. 
Guadalupe Moun-
tains National 
Park, Texas. 
Land acquisi-
tion, etc. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
Preferential 
rights to recon-
veyance. 
Be it eimcted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to 
preserve in public ownership an area in the State of Texas possessing 
outstanding geological values together with scenic and other natural 
values of great significance, the Secretary of the Interior shall establish 
the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, consisting of the land and 
interests in land within the area shown on the drawing entitled "Pro-
posed Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas", numbered SA-
GM-7100C and dated February 1965, which is on file and available 
for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, De-
partment of the Interior. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Secretary shall omit 
from the park sections 7 and 17, P.S.L. Block 121, in Hudspeth County, 
and revise the boundaries of the park accordingly if the owner of said 
sections agrees, on behalf of himself, his heirs and assigns that there 
will not be erected thereon any structure which, in the judgment of the 
Secretary, adversely affects the public use and enjoyment of the park. 
SEC. 2. (a) Within the boundaries of the Guadalupe Mountains 
National Park, the Secretary of the Interior may acquire land or inter-
ests therein by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, 
exchange, or m such other manner as he deems to be in the public inter-
est. Any property, or interest therein, owned by the State of Texas, 
or any political subdivision thereof, may be acquired only with the 
concurrence of such owner. 
(b) In order to facilitate the acquisition of privately owned lands 
in the park by exchange and avoid the payment of severance costs, the 
Secretary of the Interior may acquire approximately 4,667 acres of 
land or interests in land which lie adjacent to or in the vicinity of the 
park. 
Land so acquired outside the park boundary may be exchanged 
Dj the Secretary on an equal-value basis, subject to such terms, condi-
tions, and reservations as he may deem necessary, for privately owned 
land located within the park. 
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. 
SEC. 3. (a) When title to all privately owned land within the bound-
ary of the park, subject to such outstanding interests, rights, and ease-
ments as the Secretary determines are not objectionable, with the excep-
tion of approximately 4,574 acres which are planned to be acquired 
by exchange, is vested in the United States and after the State of Texas 
has donated or agreed to donate to the United States whatever rights 
and interests in minerals underlying the lands within the boundaries 
of the park it may have and other owners of such rights and interests 
have donated or agreed to donate the same to the United States, 
notice thereof and notice of the establishment of the Guadalupe 
Mountains National Park shall be published in the Federal Register. 
Thereafter, the Secretary may continue to acquire the remaining land 
and interests in land within the boundaries of the park. 
The Secre-
tary is authorized, pending establishment of the park, to negotiate and 
acquire options for the purchase of lands and interests in land within 
the boundaries of the park. He is further authorized to execute con-
tracts for the purchase of such lands and interests, but the liability of 
the United States under any such contract shall be contingent on the 
availability of appropriated or donated funds to fulfill the same. 
(b) In the event said lands or any part thereof cease to be used for 
national park purposes, the persons (including the State of Texas) 
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who donated to the United States rights and interests in minerals in 
the lands within the park shall be given notice, in accordance with 
regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary, of their preferential 
right to a reconveyance, without consideration, of the respective rights 
and interests in minerals which they donated to the United States. 
Such notice shall be in a form reasonably calculated to give actual 
notice to those entitled to such preferential right, and shall provide 
for a period of not less than one hundred and eighty days within which 
to exercise such preferential right. The preferential right to such re-
conveyance shall inure to the benefit of the successors, heirs, devisees, 
or assigns of such persons having such preferential right to a recon-
veyance, and such successors, heirs, devisees, or assigns shall be given 
the notice provided for in this subsection. 
(c) Such rights and interests in minerals, including all minerals 
Lands withdrawn 
of whatever nature, in and underlying the lands within the boundaries '^°'" ®^^"^^" 
of the park and which are acquired by the United States under the 
provisions of this Act are hereby withdrawn from leasing and are 
hereby excluded from the application of the present or future pro-
visions of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (Aug. 7,1947, 
c. 513, 61 Stat. 913) or other Act in lieu thereof having the same 
3o use 351 note. 
purpose, and the same are hereby also excluded from the provisions of 
all present and future laws affecting the sale of surplus property or 
of said mineral interests acquired pursuant to this Act by the United 
States or any department or agency thereof, except that, it such person 
having such preferential right to a reconveyance fails or refuses to 
exercise such preferential right to a reconveyance as provided in sub-
paragraph (b) next above, then this subsection (c) shall not be 
applicable to the rights and interests in such minerals in the identical 
lands of such person so failing or refusing to exercise such preferential 
right to a reconveyance from and after the one hundred and eighty-
day period referred to in subparagraph (b) next above. 
(d) If at any time in the future an Act of Congress provides that ^^^51"''^",^"^'"^^ 
the national welfare or an emergency requires the development and 
production of the minerals underlying the lands within the boundaries 
of the national park, or any portion thereof, and such Act of Congress, 
notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of th's section or 
any other Act, authorizes the Secretary to lease said land for the pur-
pose of drilling, mining, developing, and producing said minerals, the 
Secretary shall give the persons (including the State of Texas) who 
donated such minerals to the United States notice of their preferential 
right to lease, without consideration, all or any part of the respective 
rights and interests in minerals which they donated to the United 
States, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may 
prescribe. 
Such preferential right shall inure to the benefit of the suc-. 
cessors or assigns, and of the heirs or devisees of such persons having 
such preferential right in the premises. The persons entitled to a 
preferential right under this subsection shall be given the same notice 
thereof as persons entitled to preferential rights under subsection (b) 
of this section. 
If such person having such preferential right fails or 
refuses to exercise such right within the time specified in the above 
notice, the Secretary may thereafter lease the minerals involved to 
any other person under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. 
(e) If at an;^ time oil, gas, or other minerals should be discovered tn^/t "Jafj^n'^°"" 
and produced in commercial quantities from lands outside of the agreement. 
boundaries of the park, thereby causing drainage of oil, gas, or other 
minerals from lands within the boundaries of the park, and if the Sec-
retary participates in a communitization agreement or takes other 
action to protect the rights of the United States, the proceeds, if any, 
derived from such agreement or action shall inure to the benefit of the 
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Administration. 
Availability of 
certain funds. 
Appropriation. 
donors of the oil, gas, or other minerals, or their successors, heirs, 
devisees, or assigns. 
SEC. 4. The Guadalupe Mountains National Park shall be adminis-
tered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions 
of the Act of August 25,1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1-4), as amended 
and supplemented. 
SEC. 5. Any funds available for the purpose of administering the 
five thousand six hundred and thirty-two acres of lands previously 
donated to the United States in Culberson County, Texas, shall upon 
establishment of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park pursuant 
to this Act be available to the Secretary for purposes of such park. 
SEC. 6. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, 
but not more than $1,800,000 in all, as may be necessary for the ac-
quisition of lands and interest in lands, and not more than $10,362,000, 
as may be necessary for the development of the Guadalupe Mountains 
National Park. 
Approved October 15, 1966. 
Public Law 89-668 
October 15, 1966 
A N 
A C T 
[H. R. 8678] 
rpQ establish in tlie State of Michigan the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, 
and for other purposes. 
Pictured Rocks 
National Lake-
shore, Mich. 
Establishment. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
Pictured Rocks 
National Lake-
shore Advisory 
Commission. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate amd House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in order to 
preserve for the benefit, inspiration, education, recreational use, and 
enjoyment of the public a significant portion of the diminishing shore-
line of the United States and its related geographic and scientific 
features, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to-as the 
"Secretary") is authorized to take appropriate action, as herein pro-
vided, to establish in the State of Michigan the Pictured Kocks Na-
tional Lakeshore. 
SEC. 2. The area comprising that particular land and water depicted 
on the map identified as "Proposed Pictured Rocks National Lake-
shore, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Serv-
ice, Boundary Map, NL-PE-TlOOA, July 1966", which is on file and 
available for public inspection in the office of the National Park Service 
of the Department of the Interior, is hereby designated for establish-
ment as the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. ^ n exact copy of 
such map shall be filed for publication in the Federal Register within 
thirty days following the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act 
and following the acquisition by the Secretary of an acreage within the 
boundaries of the area which in his opinion is efficiently administrable 
for the purposes of this Act, he shall establish the Pictured Rocks Na-
tional Lakeshore by publication of notice thereof in the Federal 
Register. 
SEC. 4. (a) There is hereby established a Pictured Rocks National 
Lakeshore Advisory Commission. 
Said commission shall terminate 
ten years after the date the lakeshore is established pursuant to this 
Act. 
(b) The commission shall be composed of five members, each ap-
pointed for a term of two years by the Secretary, as follows: 
(1) Two members to be appointed from recommendations made 
by the county in which the lakeshore is situated;