[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 242 (Thursday, December 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69647-69648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-33451]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Boundary Revision: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical 
Park

AGENCY: Interior, National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice of boundary revision.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the National Park Service is 
revising the boundary of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical 
Park to include one additional tract of land.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Chief, Acquisition Division National 
Park Service, AT/LAFO, P.O. Box 908, Martinsburg, WV 25402-0908, (304) 
263-4943.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 91-664, enacted January 8, 1971 
authorizes the acquisition of certain lands for the Chesapeake and Ohio 
Canal National Historical Park. Section 7 (c) (ii) of the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act, as amended by Public Law 104-333, 
authorizes minor boundary revisions of areas within the National Park 
System. Such boundary revisions may be made, when necessary, after 
advising the appropriate Congressional Committees and following 
publication in the Federal Register.
    In order to properly interpret and preserve the historic character 
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park it is 
necessary to revise the existing boundary to include one additional 
tract of land comprising approximately 15.24 acres.
    Notice is hereby given that the exterior boundary of the Chesapeake 
and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is hereby revised to include 
the following tract of land: Tract 39-115, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
National Historical Park, is a portion of the same land acquired by the 
Nature Conservancy from Donald M. Warfield by deed dated July 31, 1992 
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recorded in Deed Book 1052, Page 85, in the Land Records of Washington 
County, State of Maryland.
    Subject to existing easements for public roads and highways, public 
utilities, railroads and pipelines.
    This tract of land is depicted on Segment Map 39, identified as 
Tract 39-115 dated June 1971. The map is on file and available for 
inspection in the office of the National Park Service, Appalachian 
Trail Land Acquisition Field Office, 1314 Edwin Miller Boulevard, P.O. 
Box 908, Martinsburg, West Virginia 25401.

    Dated: November 9, 1999.
Gentry Davis,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 98-33451 Filed 12-16-98; 8:45 am]
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