§459d Padre Island National Seashore; description of land and waters

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must take steps to create Padre Island National Seashore to protect a remaining undeveloped stretch of coast for public recreation, benefit, and inspiration. The park boundary starts at a point one statute mile north of North Bird Island on the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway. From there it goes east to Padre Island at a point one statute mile west of the Gulf of Mexico’s mean high water line, then southwest following that mean high water line about 3.5 statute miles. It then goes east to the two‑fathom line on the east side of Padre Island shown on National Ocean Survey chart 1286, follows the two‑fathom line as shown on charts 1286, 1287, and 1288 to the Willacy‑Cameron County line extended, then west along that county line to a point 1,500 feet west of the mean high water line as fixed by the J. S. Boyles survey (shown on sections 9 and 10 of the map titled “Survey of Padre Island made for the office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas,” dated August 7 to 11, 1941, and August 11, 13, and 14, 1941). From that point the boundary goes north on a line parallel to the Boyles survey and 1,500 feet west to the centerline of the Port Mansfield Channel, west along that centerline to a point three statute miles west of the two‑fathom line, north parallel to the two‑fathom line to latitude 27°20′ N, west on that latitude to the east line of the Intracoastal Waterway, and then north along the Intracoastal Waterway’s east line as marked in the Laguna Madre back to the starting point.