Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110

§2308 Campgrounds for Senior Citizens

Title 33 › CHAPTER 36 — WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › SUBCHAPTER V — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 2308

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may create separate campgrounds for people who are 62 years old or older at any lake or reservoir the Secretary manages where camping is allowed. The Secretary can also make rules about who may use those campgrounds and how people get in. Money can be provided as needed for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, to set up these campgrounds. The Secretary must create a specific campground at Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir in Texas on a parcel described in the law. The Secretary must write rules for use and access at that campground. Up to $600,000 is authorized for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, to develop the Sam Rayburn campground. The parcel is about 50 acres in Angelina County, Texas, part of the Thomas Hanks survey, and the law gives exact boundary points and distances for it.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §2308

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(a)Establishment and development

The Secretary may establish and develop separate campgrounds for individuals sixty-two years of age or older at any lake or reservoir under the jurisdiction of the Secretary where camping is permitted.

(b)Control of campground use and access

The Secretary may prescribe regulations to control the use of and the access to any separate campground established and developed under subsection (a) of this section.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, to carry out subsection (a) of this section.

(d)Campground at Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir, Texas

The Secretary shall establish and develop the parcel of land (located in the State of Texas at the Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir) described in subsection (g) of this section as a separate campground for individuals sixty-two years of age or older.

(e)Control of use and access to campground at Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir, Texas

The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to control the use of and the access to the separate campground established and developed pursuant to subsection (d) of this section.

(f)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, $600,000 to carry out subsection (d) of this section.

(g)Boundaries of campground at Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir, Texas

The parcel of land to be established and developed as a separate campground pursuant to subsection (d) of this section is a tract of land of approximately 50 acres which is located in the county of Angelina in the State of Texas and which is part of the Thomas Hanks survey. The boundary of the parcel begins at a point at the corner furthest west of tract numbered 3420 of the Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir: thence north 81 degrees 30 minutes east, approximately 2,800 feet to a point at the edge of the water; thence south along the edge of the water approximately 2,600 feet; thence north 80 degrees 30 minutes west, approximately 1,960 feet to a point at the reentrant corner of tract numbered 3419 of the Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir; thence along the boundary line of tract numbered 3419 north 46 degrees 15 minutes west, 220 feet to a point at the center line of a road at the corner common to tract numbered 3419 and tract numbered 3420; thence along the southwestern boundary line of tract numbered 3420 north 46 degrees 15 minutes west, 230 feet to a point at the corner furthest east of tract numbered 3424 of the Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir; thence along the boundary line of tract numbered 3424 south 32 degrees 4 minutes west, 420 feet to a point; thence along the boundary line of tract numbered 3424 north 28 degrees 34 minutes west, 170 feet to a point; thence along the boundary line of tract numbered 3424 north 38 degrees 15 minutes east, 248 feet to a point; thence along the boundary line of tract numbered 3424 north 32 degrees 44 minutes east, 120 feet to a point at the corner furthest north of tract numbered 3424; thence along the southwestern boundary line of tract numbered 3420 north 46 degrees 15 minutes west, 460 feet to the beginning point.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 2308

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110