[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 126 (Tuesday, July 1, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 35471]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17139]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Establishment of Homochitto Purchase Unit

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of establishment of Homochitto Purchase Unit.

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SUMMARY: The Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture created the 67-acre 
Homochitto Purchase Unit in Franklin County, Mississippi. A copy of the 
establishment document, which includes the legal description of the 
lands within the purchase unit, appears at the end of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Establishment of this purchase unit was effective May 
1, 1997.

ADDRESSES: A copy of the map depicting the land within the purchase 
unit is on file and available for inspection in the Office of the 
Director, Lands Staff, 201 14th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Craven, Lands Staff, Forest 
Service, USDA, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, D.C. 20090-6090, telephone 
(202) 205-1248.

    Dated: June 20, 1997.
Janice H. McDougle,
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System.

Homochitto Purchase Unit, Franklin County, Mississippi

    Pursuant to the Secretary of Agriculture's authority under Section 
17, P.L. 94-588 (90 Stat. 2949), the following lands are being added to 
the Homochitto Purchase Unit:
    Lands lying in Township 5 North, Range 4 East, Franklin County, 
Washington Meridian, Mississippi, and more particularly described as:
    All that part of the N\1/2\ of the NE\1/4\ of Section 31 lying 
South of the Homochitto River, and all that part of the N\1/2\ of the 
NW\1/4\ of Section 32 lying South of the Homochitto River.

Containing 67 acres, more or less.

    These lands are well suited for watershed protection and meet the 
requirements of the Act of March 1, 1911, as amended.

    Dated: May 1, 1997.
Brian Eliot Burke,
Deputy Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment.
[FR Doc. 97-17139 Filed 6-30-97; 8:45 am]
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