NPS Withdrawal: 1949
Transferred to the U. S. Army Corps. of Engineers in 1949.
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Under the terms of an agreement dated April 18, 1946, the Corps of Engineers transferred to the National Park Service administrative responsibility for the recreational use of Lake Texoma. In this way, a new National Park System unit designated Lake Texoma Recreation Area (aka Lake Texoma National Recreation Area) was created.
By this stage of America's great western dam building era, interagency agreements for the recreation management of reservoirs were fairly commonplace. But like a number of other reservoir recreation management agreements the Park Service inked during this era (see the Postscript), this one didn't last. On June 30, 1949, the National Park Service returned Lake Texoma Recreation Area to the Corps of Engineers by termination of agreement. The delisted Lake Texoma Recreation Area had been a national park for only a little more than three years.
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Lake_Texoma_Mes... on January 11, 2010 - 1:01pm. (https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2008/09/pruning-parks-flaming-gorge-national-recreation-area-was-national-park-just-five-years)
Independent news of the ongoing precedent-setting, illegal privatization of Lake Texoma State Park by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, and the State of Oklahoma.
Just noticed your reference to NPS offloading Lake Texoma Recreation Area to the Corps in 1949. When these original Chickasaw and Choctaw lands on the Oklahoma/northern side of the lake were purchased pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1938, the federal government went through a legal condemnation process for that purpose only. Later, electricity generation at the Denison Dam, and then Recreation, were added in the mission of USACE management of the Lake Texoma and surrounding federal lands.
In 2008, 750 acres of Lake Texoma State Park, including 564 acres of federally-protected park land, were sold to the State Tourism Department and then to Pointe Vista Developement. Now, the state is pursuing an addtiional 1,022 acres to sell to Pointe Vista Development. I am interested in learning how these federal lands can be privatized, in the absence of another condemnation process allowing for privatization, when the original condemnation process stated these lands were being condemned for flood control purposes only.
In June, 2005, the Corps of Engineers in Tulsa issued a fraudulent Environmental Assessment regarding the first two segments of the park which were illegally sold in 2008. That EA studied the expansion of the park to include a public/private partnership surrounding the Chickasaw Pointe Golf Course, north of US70, and the complete revitalization and restoration of Lake Texoma State Park and Resort on the south of the highway. It did not study the complete privatization of the park for the benefit of wealthy Oklahoma City businessmen, Mark Fischer, CEO of Chaparral Energy, and Aubrey Kerr McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy.
There is collusion between National Park Service officials and the State of Oklahoma in violation of the federal Land and Water Conservation Act, as well as the National Environmental Policy Act, with the goal of securing additional park and shoreline acreage for private commercial development, unless the Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, and Obama administration officials take action to stop it.