The House of Representatives approved a bill by U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, to add 4,700 acres of open space to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, bringing the full Congress behind the idea and pushing it to the president’s desk.
The Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005, introduced by Lantos in January, lets the federal government buy the land for about half its market value.
The additional land will include the 4,076-acre area, one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land along the coast, and about 800 acres of state property near Devil’s Slide.
"We must protect these areas for our children and grandchildren today, or they will be lost forever,” Lantos stated in an announcement of the bill’s passage.
The GGNRA is already considered the world’s largest urban park and continues growing with the addition of sites on the Peninsula and the coastline. Congress considered similar legislation by Lantos and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., last year but did not vote before the end of the session.
This year, the Senate approved the bill in July and the House followed suit Tuesday.
President George W. Bush is expected to sign it before the year’s end, according to Lantos spokeswoman Lynne Weil.
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