Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area Act

This bill would create the Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park System, along the Texas Gulf Coast in Jefferson, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, and Matagorda Counties. Land could be added only by donation, purchase from willing sellers with donated funds, exchange, or transfer from another federal agency, and could not be taken by condemnation. Private and public sites could join a wider network only with the owner's written consent. A Lone Star Coastal Partnership of up to 31 members would write a resource management plan for the Secretary of the Interior to approve. The bill states that landowners would face no new regulations because of the designation and that hunting, fishing, off-road vehicle, and personal watercraft use would be permitted on Park Service lands in the area, subject to listed conditions.

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Sponsors

• Randy K. Weber, Sr. Republican sponsor
• 6 cosponsors