[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 40 (Thursday, February 28, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9318-9319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4845]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Delaware Water Gap; National Recreation Area, New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

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SUMMARY: With this notice the National Park Service is notifying the 
public of an adjustment to the boundary of the Delaware Water Gap 
National Recreation Area to include certain lands within the boundary 
of the Recreation Area.

ADDRESSES AND INFORMATION:  The maps on which these tracts are depicted 
are Segments 5 and 83. These maps were prepared by the National Park 
Service, Land Resources Program Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Detailed information concerning this boundary revision, including 
precise legal descriptions, Land Protection Plans, environmental 
assessments and cultural reports are available at the Superintendent's 
office at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, River Road, 
Bushkill, PA 18324 (570-588-2435); or the National Park Service, Land 
Resources Program Center, Northeast Region, 200 Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106.

SUPPLEMENTRY INFORMATION:  Sec. 3(b), of Pub. L. 89-158, (authorizing 
Act), 79 Stat. 613, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of the 
Interior to make adjustments in the boundary of the area by publication 
of the amended description thereof in the Federal Register and acquire, 
by such means as he may deem to be in the public interest, including an 
exchange of excluded for included lands or interests therein with or 
without the payment or receipt of money to equalize the values, 
additional lands and interests therein included in the area by reason 
of the boundary adjustment.
    In accordance with the Department of the Interior Departmental 
Manual, 245 DM 1.1 C.(7), the Director is delegated the Secretary's 
authority to carry out the provisions of the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601-1-4 through 
1-11) and Sections 6 and 7 of Executive Order 11200 including the 
reporting requirements found in Title 16 U.S.C., Sections 4601-6a(h) 
and 4601-10d.
    The Director, under Director's Order #3: Delegation of Authority, 
Section 15, 4 states ``* * * and field directors are authorized to 
perform the appraisal and land acquisition functions as established in 
Public Law 91-646, title III (42 U.S.C. 4651-4655) and implemented by 
49 CFR 24.
    The boundaries mentioned above are specified in Section 2(a) of the 
authorizing Act as ``lands and interests therein within the boundaries 
of the area, as generally depicted on the drawing entitled, `Proposed 
Tocks Island National Recreation Area,' dated and numbered September 
1962, NRA-TI-7100.''
    In a subsequent notice of Establishment published in the Federal 
Register, Vol. 42, No. 109, June 7, 1977, the Secretary of the Interior 
gave notice of the establishment of the Recreation Area. In this 
notice, he stated that ``adjustments may be subsequently made in the 
boundaries of the area by publication of the amendments to the boundary 
description thereof in the Federal Register as provided in the 
authorizing act''.
    In a further Notice of Revision of Park Boundaries published in the 
Federal Register, Vol. 56, No. 132, Wednesday, July 10, 1991, the 
Regional Director, Mid-Atlantic Region, gave notice of a boundary 
revision as provided in the authorizing act.
    Notice is hereby given that the boundary of the Delaware Water Gap 
National Recreation Area has been revised pursuant to the above Act, to 
include the following tracts:

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                 Tract No.                             Acreage
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8306......................................  0.20 FEE
570.......................................  0.66 FEE
572.......................................  3.12 ROW
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    Tract 8306 was inadvertently omitted from the boundary revision 
published in Federal Register; Vol. 56, No. 132 dated July 10, 1991, 
mentioned above. This tract of land is completely surrounded on three 
sides by park land already within the boundary. The fourth side of this 
tract is bounded by State Highway

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51001 (Milford Road). With the inclusion of this tract the boundary is 
uninterrupted on the West side of Milford Road for more than a mile.
    A revision to the boundary to include Tracts 570 and 572 will allow 
for an exchange of lands between the United States of America and Union 
Motor Lodge, Incorporated. The park will receive a wooded parcel of 
land which is contiguous with the existing boundary, and also use of an 
access road that parallels the fairway. The park proposed to exchange 
Tract 571, a 0.38 of an acre parcel of land that no longer contains 
values for which the park was established.
    The inclusion of the above-mentioned tracts will allow for proper 
management of park lands.

    Dated: December 20, 2001.
Pat Phelan,
Acting Regional Director, Northeast Region.
[FR Doc. 02-4845 Filed 2-27-02; 8:45 am]
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