Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, 88th Congress, 2d Session, on H.R. 6925 and S. 27, Bills to Provide for Establishment of the Canyonslands National Park in the State of Utah, and for Other Purposes, June 20 and 29, 1964U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 81 pages |
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Page 6 - Secretary may accept title to any non-Federal property within the boundaries of the park and recreation areas and in exchange therefor he may convey to the grantor of such property...
Page 7 - Park are legally occupied or utilized on the date of approval of this Act for grazing purposes, pursuant to a lease, permit, or license issued or authorized by any department, establishment, or agency of the United States, the Secretary shall permit the persons holding such grazing privileges...
Page 11 - The properties so exchanged shall be approximately equal in fair market value, provided that the Secretary may accept cash from or pay cash to the grantor in such an exchange in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.
Page 8 - Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 USC 1 and the following), as amended and supplemented.
Page 11 - ... and the Secretary shall take administrative action to complete transfer on any lands in a proper application by the State of Utah on or before the expiration of one hundred twenty days following the date of enactment of this Act...
Page 9 - Ct.-i li unqualifiedly merits preservation as a national park. Within this area are three distinct scenic divisions separated by these two deep-canyoned rivers. These are the areas northward, westward, and southeastward from the confluence. The rugged landscape in the areas contains a profusion of impressive red rock canyons, sandstone spires, arches, and other erosive features that may well be of worldwide significance.
Page 8 - Within the area described in section 1 hereof or which lies within the boundaries of the park, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands and interests in lands by such means as he may deem to be in the public interest. The Secretary may accept title to any non-Federal property within the park...
Page 12 - That the lands or interests therein so exchanged shall involve approximately equal values, as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That the Secretary may accept cash from, or pay cash to, the grantor in an exchange in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.
Page 12 - All moneys received from the disposal of materials under this Act shall be disposed of in the same manner as moneys received from the sale of public lands, except that moneys received from the disposal of materials...
Page 9 - The park constitutes the central portion of a mighty, arid valley, much wider from plateau rim to plateau rim than the proposed park area itself, filled with mazes of canyons, gigantic standing rock formations, towering buttes, natural bridges or arches, balanced rock formations, and other evidences of mighty geologic forces and millions of years of erosion. The area was once covered by a great sea which left a deep deposit of salt. In the hundreds of centuries which followed, windblown sand and...