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§460eee Establishment

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter CXVI— LAKE MEREDITH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460eee

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area in Texas so people can enjoy its lands and waters and so the area's scenic, scientific, and cultural values are protected. The area includes the lands, waters, and related interests shown on the map labeled SWRO—80,023–A, dated September 1990, which is kept at National Park Service offices for public viewing. The Secretary of the Interior can make small boundary changes. Federal lands and waters inside that mapped area are put under the care of the National Park Service, except for the pieces needed to run the Canadian River Project for municipal and industrial water supply and flood control. Those stay under the Bureau of Reclamation.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460eee

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(a)In order to provide for public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of the lands and waters associated with Lake Meredith in the State of Texas, and to protect the scenic, scientific, cultural, and other values contributing to the public enjoyment of such lands and waters, there is hereby established the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (hereafter in this Act referred to as the “recreation area”).
(b)The recreation area shall consist of the lands, waters, and interests therein within the area generally depicted on the map entitled “Lake Meredith National Recreation Area Boundary Map, ‘Fee-Take Line’ ”, numbered SWRO—80,023–A, and dated September 1990. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act referred to as the “Secretary”) may from time to time make minor revisions in the boundary of the recreation area.
(c)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Federal lands, waters, and interests therein within the recreation area are hereby transferred to the National Park Service.
(2)Those lands depicted on the map referred to in subsection (b) that are necessary for the continued operation, maintenance, and replacement of the Canadian River Project facilities and its purposes of providing for municipal and industrial water supply and flood control shall remain under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation.

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This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), is Pub. L. 101–628, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4469, which enacted this subchapter, subchapters CXV (§ 460ddd) and CXVII (§ 460fff et seq.) of this chapter, chapter 65 (§ 4601 et seq.) of this title, and former sections 1a–9 to 1a–13 of this title, amended section 410ee, former section 463, and section 1274 and 1276 of this title, enacted provisions set out as notes under section 1132 and 1271 of this title and section 1522 of Title 43, Public Lands, and formerly set out as notes under section 1a–5 of this title, and enacted provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460eee

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60