Big Thicket National Preserve Addition Act of 1993
PL 103-46 (S.80), enacted 07/01/1993

PUBLIC LAW 103-46—JULY 1, 1993 
107 STAT. 229 
Public Law 103-46 
103d Congress 
An Act 
To increase the size of the Big Thicket National Preserve in the State of Texas 
by adding the Village Creek corridor unit, the Big Sandy corridor unit, and 
the Canyonlands unit. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be referred to as the "Big Thicket National 
Preserve Addition Act of 1993". 
SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO THE BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE. 
(a) ADDITIONS.—Subsection (b) of the first section of the Act 
entitled "An Act to authorize the establishment of the Big Thicket 
National Preserve in the State of Texas, and for other purposes", 
approved October 11, 1974 (16 U.S.C. 698), hereafter referred to 
as the "Act", is amended as foUovys: 
(1) Strike out "map entitled 'Big Thicket National Pre-
serve'" and all that follows through "Secretary of the Interior 
(hereafter referred to as the 'Secretary*)" and insert in lieu 
thereof "map entitled 'Big Thicket National Preserve', dated 
October 1992, and numbered 175-80008, which shall be on 
file and available for public inspection in the offices of the 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and the 
offices of the Superintendent of the preserve. After advising 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of 
the United States House of Representatives, in writing, the 
Secretary of the Interior (hereafter referred to as the 'Secretary*) 
may make minor revisions of the boundaries of the preserve 
when necessary by publication of a revised drawing or other 
boundary description in the Federal Register. The Secretary". 
(2) Strike out "and" at the end of the penultimate undesig-
nated paragraph relating to Little Pine Island-Pine Island 
Bayou corridor unit. 
(3) Strike out the period in the ultimate undesignated 
paragraph relating to Lance Rosier unit and insert in lieu 
thereof";". 
(4) Add at the end thereof the following: 
"Village Creek Corridor unit, Hardin County, Texas, 
comprising approximately four thousand seven hundred and 
ninety-three acres; 
July 1, 1993 
[S. 80] 
Big Thicket 
National 
Preserve 
Addition Act of 
1993. 
Conservation. 
16 u s e 698 note. 
Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
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Real property. 
16 u s e 698. 
Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
16 u s e 698 note. 
"Big Sandy Corridor unit, Hardin, Polk, and Tyler Counties, 
Texas, comprising approximately four thousand four hundred 
and ninety-seven acres; and 
"Canyonlands unit, Tyler County, Texas, 
comprising 
approximately one thousand four hundred and seventy-six 
acres.". 
(b) ACQUISITION.—(1) Subsection (c) of the first section of such 
Act is amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting 
in lieu thereof the following: "The Secretary is authorized to acquire 
by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated fimds, transfer 
from any other Federal agency, or exchange, any lands, waters, 
or interests therein which are located within the boundaries of 
the preserve: Provided, That privately owned lands located within 
the Village Creek Corridor, Big Sandy Corridor, and Canyonlands 
units may be acquired only with the consent of the owner: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may acquire lands owned by commercial 
timber companies only by donation or exchange: Provided 
further. 
That any lands owned by the State of Texas, or any political 
subdivisions thereof may be acquired by donation only.". 
(2) Add at the end of the first section of such Act the following 
new subsections: 
"(d) Within sixty days after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
identify lands within their jurisdiction located within the vicinity 
of the preserve which may be suitable for exchange for commercial 
timber lands within the preserve. In so doing, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall seek to identify for exchange Nationsd Forest 
lands that are near or adjacent to private lands that are already 
owned by the commercial timber companies. Such National Forest 
lands shall be located in the Sabine National Forest in Sabine 
County, Texas, in the Davy Crockett National Forest south of 
Texas State Highway 7, or in other sites deemed mutually agree-
able, and within reasonable distance of the timber companies' exist-
ing mills. In exercising this exchange authority, the Secretary and 
the Secretary of Agriculture may utilize any authorities or proce-
dures otherwise available to them in connection with land 
exchanges, and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of 
this Act. Land exchanges authorized pursuant to this subsection 
shall be of equal value and shall be completed as soon as possible, 
but no later than two years after date of enactment of this sub-
section. 
"(e) With respect to the thirty-seven-acre area owned by the 
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation or its subsidiary, Kirby Forest Indus-
tries, Inc., on Big Sandy Creek in Hardin County, Texas, and 
now utilized as part of the Indian Springs Youth Camp (H.G. 
King Abstract 822), the Secretary shall not acquire such area with-
out the consent of the owner so long as the area is used exclusively 
as a youth camp.". 
(c) PUBLICATION OF BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION.—Not later than 
six months after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a detailed descrip-
tion of the boundary of the Village Creek Corridor unit, the Big 
Sandy Corridor unit, and the Canyonlands unit of the Big Thicket 
National Preserve. 
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(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 6 of such Act i6 use 698e. 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
"Effective upon date of enactment of this sentence, there is author-
ized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the purposes of subsections (c) and (d) of the first section.". 
Approved July 1, 1993. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 80: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 103-142 (Comm. on Natural Resources). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 103-9 (Ctomm. on Energy and Natural Resources). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 139 (1993): 
Mar. 17, considered and passed Senate. 
June 21, considered and passed House. 
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