[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 40 (Monday, March 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10238-10239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5288]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Boundary Revision: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of boundary revision.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the National Park Service is 
revising the boundary of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park to 
include one additional tract of land.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph A. Cook, Chief, Land Resources 
Program Center, National Capital Region, National Park Service, 1100 
Ohio Drive, SW, Washington, DC 20242, (202) 619-7025; and Donald W. 
Campbell, Superintendent, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, 
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 25425, (304) 535-6224.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act of June 30, 1944, c. 328,58 Stat.645 
(codified as amended and supplemented, 16 U.S.C. 450bb-450bb-6), which 
established Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, provides the 
Secretary of the Interior with authority to make minor revisions in the 
boundary of the Park. Such boundary revisions may be made, when 
necessary, after advising the appropriate Congressional committees, and 
following publication of a revised boundary map, drawing or other 
boundary description in the Federal Register.
    In order to properly interpret and preserve the historic character 
of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, it is necessary to revise 
the existing boundary to include one additional tract of land 
comprising approximately 56 acres. The inclusion of this tract within 
the boundary will bring Park acreage to approximately 2,350 acres. The 
existing acreage ceiling for the Park is 2,505 acres as set forth by 
Pub. L. 101-109 approved October 6, 1989. The property is being 
acquired by donation.
    Notice is hereby given that the exterior boundary of Harpers Ferry 
National Historical Park is revised to include the following tract of 
land described in two (2) parcels:

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Parcel 1

    Known and described as the ``Exemption Parcel'', containing 16.07 
acres, more or less, as the same is more particularly bounded and 
described on a plat entitled ``Exemption Parcel and Residue'', made by 
Appalachian Surveys, Inc., dated February 10, 1987, and recorded in the 
office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West 
Virginia, in Plat Book 7, page 39.
    BEING the same parcel of real estate which was conveyed to the 
Civil War Trust from D. Frank Hill, III, Substitute Trustee, by a deed 
dated the 18th. day of September, 1992 and recorded in the aforesaid 
Clerk's office in the Deed Book 724, page 153.

Parcel 2

    Fronting 1,723.69 feet on the east side of Secondary Route 27 and 
containing 40.0 acres as the same is more particularly bounded and 
described on a plat entitled ``Exemption Parcel and Residue'' made by 
Appalachian Surveys, Inc., dated February 10, 1987, and recorded in the 
office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West 
Virginia, in Plat Book 7, page 39.
    BEING the same parcel of real estate which was conveyed to the 
Civil War Trust from D. Frank Hill, III, Substitute Trustee, by a deed 
dated the 30th. day of October, 1992 and recorded in the aforesaid 
Clerk's office in Deed Book 727, page 750.
    Subject to all restrictive covenants, conditions, easements, 
rights-of-way and limitations of record.
    These contiguous parcels of land contain in the aggregate 56 acres 
of land and are depicted as Tract No. 102-22 on Land Status Map 
numbered 385-80085, Segment 102, dated December, 1996.
    All maps referenced are on file and available for inspection in the 
Offices of the Land Resources Program Center, National Capital Region, 
National Park Service, Department of Interior, 1100 Ohio Drive, SW, 
Washington, DC, 20242.

    Dated: February 19, 1998.
Joseph Lawton,
Acting Regional Director, National Park Service, National Capital 
Region.
[FR Doc. 98-5288 Filed 2-27-98; 8:45 am]
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