§459d Padre Island National Seashore; Description of Land and Waters

Summary

Require the Secretary of the Interior to set aside and protect a stretch of undeveloped Texas coast as the Padre Island National Seashore for public use. The protected area 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 a point one statute mile west of the Gulf’s average high-tide shoreline on Padre Island, then southwest parallel to that shoreline about 3.5 statute miles. It then goes east to the two-fathom line shown on National Ocean Survey charts 1286–1288, follows that line to the Willacy–Cameron County line, then west to a point 1,500 feet west of the Gulf’s high-tide line as shown by J. S. Boyles’ survey (map sections 9 and 10 dated August 7–11, 1941, and August 11, 13, and 14, 1941). The boundary runs north parallel to that survey to the Port Mansfield Channel centerline, west to a point three statute miles west of the two-fathom line, north to latitude 27°20′ N, west to the Intracoastal Waterway’s east side, and then north along that waterway through Laguna Madre back to the starting point.