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The Big Bend region of Texas , including Big Bend National Park, could soon have new border security measures under the federal government's "Smart Wall" initiative.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection calls the smart wall a system that combines "steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, and advanced detection technology."

Officials awarded $4.5 billion in contracts last month that will add 230 miles of smart wall and 400 miles of "new technology," according to a release last month .

Border impacts on Big Bend National Park

A map on the CBP website shows a section of border security measures that runs directly through Big Bend National Park. Though the map lists the project as a "detection technology" project with "BBT technology only," but doesn

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