98-12697. Joint Secretarial Order; Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina and Blue Ridge Parkway; Joint Order Transferring Administrative Jurisdiction of National Forest System Lands

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 26571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12697]


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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. 98-12697 Filed 5-12-98; 8:45 am]
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