[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20960-20961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10530]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Boundary Modification
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of effective date.
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SUMMARY: The Act of August 26, 1982, establishing the Mount St. Helens
National Volcanic Monument, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, requires
public and congressional notice of proposed boundary revisions for a
period of 60 days prior to such revisions becoming effective. Notice of
proposed revisions to the boundary in Cowlitz County, Washington, was
published in the Federal Register on February 9, 1995 [60 FR 7748]. The
Forest Service hereby gives notice that the proposed boundary
modifications as published are now effective.
DATES: The 60-day notice period expired April 10, 1995. The effective
date of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Boundary
modification was April 10, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ralph Bauman, Lands Staff, Forest Service, USDA, P.O. Box 96090,
Washington, DC 20090-6090, telephone: (202) 205-1248; or Bruce Watson,
Assistant Lands Staff Officer, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, P.O.
Box 8944, Vancouver, Washington 98668-8944, telephone: (206) 750-5103.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 1(b)(2) of the
Act of August 26, 1982 (96 Stat. 301), establishing the Mount St.
Helens National Volcanic Monument, the Secretary of Agriculture has
modified the Monument boundary. A copy of the Secretary's boundary
modification document which includes the legal description of the lands
included within the modification appears at the end of this notice.
Dated: April 19, 1995.
Larry D. Gadt,
Acting Deputy Chief.
Boundary Modification, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument,
Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington
Pursuant to the Secretary of Agriculture's authority under section
1(b)(2) of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Act of 1982
(P.L. 97-243, 96 Stat. 301), a minor boundary modification is being
made to the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Gifford
Pinchot National Forest, Cowlitz County, Washington.
The proposed modification will delete approximately 1.93 acres to
the 111,500 acre Monument. This land to be deleted is privately owned.
The current boundary of the Monument follows the east-west
centerline of section 35 to the south right-of-way line of State Route
504. The proposed modification would delete a strip of land 100 feet
wide containing Weyerhaeuser Company's access road to their lands north
of the Monument.
The legal description of the boundary deletion is as follows: All
descriptions are for the Willamette Meridian, Cowlitz County,
Washington.
A strip of land 100 feet wide, 50 feet each side of the following
described centerline, as surveyed and filed in Vol. 12 Page 78, Cowlitz
County, Washington.
Beginning at the West \1/4\ corner of section 35, T. 10 N., R. 4
E., thence S 88 deg.-41'-06'' E, along the East-West centerline of
section 35, a distance of 2483.41 feet to the intersection of the
centerline of Weyerhaeuser road number 3500, and the true point of
beginning; thence southerly with the centerline of Weyerhaeuser road
number 3500, S 18 deg.-19'-24'' E a distance of 290.23 feet to the
beginning of a curve concave to the West, having a radius of 247.03
feet, thence southerly 98.67 feet along said curve with a central
angle of 22 deg.-53'-04'' to the end of said curve, thence S 4 deg.-
33'-40'' W a distance of 114.01 feet to the beginning of a curve
concave to the West, having a radius of 245.21 feet, thence
southwesterly 206.80 feet along said curve with a central angle of
48 deg.-19'-21'' to the end of said curve, thence S 52 deg.-53'-01''
E a distance of 130.34 feet to the intersection with the Northerly
right of way for State Highway number 504.
The private lands involved are deleted with the concurrence of the
Weyerhaeuser Company, the landowner. [[Page 20961]]
This modification shall become effective 60 days from the date the
notice is published in the Federal Register and simultaneous
notification is provided to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture and the
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
Dated: February 2, 1995.
Adela Backiel,
Deputy Under Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-10530 Filed 4-27-95; 8:45 am]
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