To adjust the boundaries of the Gulf Islands National Seashore to include Cat Island, Mississippi.

Amends Federal law which established the Gulf Islands National Seashore to include within such Seashore Cat Island, Mississippi, if acquired by the Secretary of the Interior from a willing seller. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire from a willing seller: (1)an easement over the Boddie Family Tract on Cat Island in order to implement an agreement concerning the development and use of such parcel; and (2) certain lands and interests within one mile seaward of Cat Island.

Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements: (1) with the State of Mississippi for managing resources and providing law enforcement assistance on Cat Island and one mile seaward therefrom; and (2) with the owners of the Boddie Tract for effecting the agreement concerning its development and use.

Authorizes appropriations to acquire lands and submerged lands on and adjacent to Cat Island.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2541 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2541

   To adjust the boundaries of the Gulf Islands National Seashore to 
                    include Cat Island, Mississippi.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 1999

  Mr. Taylor of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To adjust the boundaries of the Gulf Islands National Seashore to 
                    include Cat Island, Mississippi.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. BOUNDARY ADJUSTED TO INCLUDE CAT ISLAND.

    The first section of Public Law 91-660 (16 U.S.C. 459h; 84 Stat. 
1967) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (6) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (F);
            (2) by striking ``shall comprise the following gulf coast'' 
        and inserting the following: ``shall comprise the following:
            ``(1) The gulf coast''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Cat Island, Mississippi, and the water area adjacent 
        to the shoreline of Cat Island that is not owned by the State 
        of Mississippi on the date of the enactment of this 
        paragraph.''.
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