Jurisdictional transfers: Blue Ridge Parkway, Pisgah National Forest, NC,

[Federal Register: May 13, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 92)]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Joint Secretarial Order; Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina and Blue Ridge Parkway; Joint Order Transferring Administrative Jurisdiction of National Forest System Lands

By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture and in the Secretary of the Interior by the Act of June 8, 1940, which amended the Act of June 30, 1936 (16 U.S.C. 460a-1), it is ordered as follows:

The National Forest System lands described as portions of Tract V- 1, Parcels 1 and 2 in Section 2-S and Parcel 1 in Section 2-T of the Blue Ridge Parkway, which are part of the Pisgah National Forest located in Henderson, Buncombe, Haywood and Transylvania Counties, North Carolina, are hereby transferred from the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior subject to outstanding rights or interests of record. Pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1940, which amended the act of June 30, 1936, the National Forest lands transferred to the Department of the Interior shall be administered as part of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

A description of the lands to be transferred and a map are available for public inspection at the Office of the Chief, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Auditors Building, 201 14th Street, S.W., at Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250. Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture. Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior.

[FR Doc. 98-12697Filed5-12-98; 8:45 am]

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