[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 17872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9865]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction; Sam Rayburn Dam and 
Reservoir Project

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of joint interchange of lands.

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SUMMARY: On October 10, 1995, and January 11, 1996, the Secretary of 
the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture respectively signed a joint 
interchange order agreeing to the transfer of administrative 
jurisdiction from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of 
the Army of 36.286 acres, more or less, lying within the Angelina 
National Forest in Jasper County, Texas, and from the Department of the 
Army to the department of Agriculture of 48.29 acres, more or less 
lying, within the exterior boundaries of the Sabine National Forest in 
Sabine County, Texas. As required by the Act of July 26, 1956, Congress 
has received 47 days advance notice of this action. A copy of the Joint 
Order, as signed, appears at the end of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The order is effective April 23, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David M. Sherman, Lands Staff, Forest Service, USDA, Telephone: (202) 
205-1362.

    Dated: April 12, 1996.
Jerry A. Sesco,
Acting Chief.

Department of the Army

Department of Agriculture

Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Texas

Joint Order Interchanging Administrative Jurisdiction of Department of 
the Army Lands and National Forest Lands

    By Virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Army by Public Law 804 dated 
July 26, 1956 (70 Stat. 656; 16 U.S.C. 505a, 505b) it is ordered as 
follows:
    (1) The jurisdiction now held by the Secretary of the Army over 
the Army lands described in Exhibits A and A-1, attached hereto and 
made a part hereof, which lands are within the boundaries of the 
Sabine National Forest, Texas, is hereby transferred from the 
Secretary of the Army to the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to 
the Corps of Engineers' full, complete and perpetual right, power, 
privilege and easement occasionally to overflow, flood and submerge 
the land described in Exhibits A and A-1 lying below elevation 179' 
National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD), and its right to maintain 
mosquito control as may be required in connection with the 
construction, operation and maintenance of the Sam Rayburn Reservoir 
Project, Texas, provided that no structures for human habitation 
shall be constructed or maintained on said land, and that no other 
structures shall be constructed or maintained on said land except as 
may be approved in writing by the representatives of the United 
States in charge of the Project, and that no excavation shall be 
conducted and no landfill placed on the land without such approval 
as to the location and method of excavation and/or placement of 
landfill, provided further that any use of the land shall be subject 
to Federal and State laws with respect to pollution.
    (2) The jurisdiction now held by the Secretary of Agriculture 
over the National Forest lands described in Exhibits B and B-1, 
attached hereto and made a part hereof, which are a part of the 
Angelina National Forest, Texas, is hereby transferred from the 
Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Army, subject to 
continued access thereover by the Forest Service as may be necessary 
for National Forest purposes.
    (3) Pursuant to Section 2 of the aforesaid Act of July 26, 1956, 
the National Forest lands transferred to the Secretary of the Army 
by this order are hereafter subject only to the laws applicable to 
the Department of the Army lands comprising the Sam Rayburn 
Reservoir Project, Texas. The Department of the Army lands 
transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture by this order are hereby 
subject to the laws applicable to lands acquired under the Act of 
March 1, 1911 (38 Stat. 961), as amended, in addition to the laws 
applicable to the Department of Army necessary to provide for flood 
control as specified in paragraph 1 of this Order. Pursuant to 
authority contained in section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1911, the 
Secretary of Agriculture hereby orders that those lands transferred 
to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be administered as a part of 
the Sabine National Forest, Texas.
    This order will be effective as of date of publication in the 
Federal Register.

    Dated: October 10, 1995.
Togo D. West, Jr.,
Secretary of the Army.

    Dated: January 11, 1996.
Dan Glickman,
Secretary of Agriculture.
[FR Doc. 96-9865 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]
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