[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 28729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13768]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Establishment of the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
SUMMARY: Notice to announce the formal establishment of the Agate
Fossil Beds National Monument, effective June 14, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National
Monument, P.O. Box 27, Gering, Nebraska 69341-0027; or telephone 308-
436-4340.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 89-33 (79 Stat. 123.) approved
June 5, 1965, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to establish the
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in the State of Nebraska as a unit
of the National Park System. The park was authorized to preserve for
the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations the
outstanding paleontological sites known as the Agate Springs Fossil
Quarries, and nearby related geological phenomena, to provide a center
for continuing paleontological research and for the display and
interpretation of the scientific specimens uncovered at such sites, and
to facilitate the protection and exhibition of a valuable collection of
Native American artifacts and relics that are representative of an
important phase of Native American history.
Public Law 89-33 authorized the Secretary of the Interior to
acquire by donation, or by purchase with donated or appropriated funds,
or otherwise, title or a lesser interest in not more than three
thousand one hundred and fifty acres of land in Township 28 North,
Range 55 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Sioux County, Nebraska, for
inclusion in the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in accordance with
the boundary designation made pursuant to Section 2 thereof, which
boundary may include such right-of-way as is needed for a road between
the Stenomylus Quarry site and the monument lands lying in Section 3 or
10 of the said Township and Range.
Further, upon completion of land acquisition, the Secretary of the
Interior may establish the park area by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register, and any subsequent adjustment of its boundaries shall
be effectuated in the same manner.
The National Park Service has prepared a map identified as Boundary
Map of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Drawing Number 165/80,023,
dated May 1997, which depicts the boundaries established by this
notice. A copy of the map is available at the following locations: The
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Land Resources
Division, 1849 ``C'' Street, NW, Room 2444, Washington, D.C. 20240; the
National Park Service, Midwest Field Area, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha,
Nebraska 68102; and Scotts Bluff National Monument or Agate Fossil Beds
National Monument at the address listed above.
Dated: May 13, 1997.
William W. Schenk,
Field Director, Midwest Field Area.
[FR Doc. 97-13768 Filed 5-23-97; 8:45 am]
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