85R631 KSM-D     By: Springer H.C.R. No. 30       CONCURRENT RESOLUTION          WHEREAS, The Red River Boundary Compact of 2000 set the   boundary between Texas and Oklahoma at the vegetation line on the   south bank of the Red River, with the exception of the Texoma area,   where the boundary is established pursuant to procedures outlined   in the agreement; and          WHEREAS, In 2013, the United States Bureau of Land Management   began developing a resource management plan for the use of land   along a 116-mile stretch of the Red River; it claims that as many as   90,000 acres in Texas may actually be part of federal lands and   would therefore be public land under a 1923 Supreme Court ruling;   and          WHEREAS, Many Texas residents have held title to this land   for generations, and they have been paying property taxes on the   land while cultivating and maintaining it; the boundary between the   states was settled in 2000 for legal jurisdiction, when the U.S.   Congress ratified the compact, but now, confusion over the boundary   threatens the value of this privately owned land and makes it   difficult for property owners to make informed decisions concerning   its disposition and their livelihoods; and          WHEREAS, Private property rights are the bedrock of a free   society, and the actions of the Bureau of Land Management with   regard to land covered by the Red River Boundary Compact are an   egregious example of federal overreach; now, therefore, be it          RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas   hereby respectfully urge the United States Congress to direct the   Bureau of Land Management to affirm the provisions of the Red River   Boundary Compact and to acknowledge that the vegetation line on the   south bank of the Red River forms the boundary between Oklahoma and   Texas; and, be it further          RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official   copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to   the secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, to   the director of the United States Bureau of Land Management, to the   president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of   Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the   members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that   this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a   memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.