WSP08384

• File Number: 8200.300.20.I
• Description: Great Sand Dunes National Monument
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1999
• Author: Various
• Title: News Articles and correspondnece
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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H.L.C.

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1 SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF GREAT SAND DUNES NA-

2 TIONAL PARK AND GREAT SAND DUNES NA-

3 TIONAL PARK PRESERVE, COLORADO.
4 (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL PARK.-
5 (1) ESTABLISHMENT AUTHORIZED.-The Sec-
6 retary is authorized to establish the Great Sand
7 Dunes National Park in the State .of Colorado, as
8 generally depicted on the park and preserve map, as

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9 a unit of the National Park System.

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(2) ESTABLISHMENT REQUIRED.-Notwith-

11 standing paragraph (1), the Secretary shall establish
12 the national park as soon as the Secretary deter-
13 mines that sufficient lands, with a sufficient diver-
14 sity of resources, have been acquired to warrant des-
15 ignation of the lands as a unit of the national park
16 system. Until the national park is established, the
17 Secretary shall notify the Committee on Energy and
18 Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee

19 on Resources of the House of Representatives, on an
20 annual basis, of-
21 (A) the Secretary' estimate of the acreage
22 necessary to achieve a sufficient diversity of re-
23 sources to warrant designation of the national
24 park; and
25 (B) the Secretary's progress m acqmnng
26 such acreage.

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