[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 2351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-992]


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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

National Park Service


Boundary Revision: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 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 the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National 
Historical Park to include one additional tract of land.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judy L. Brumback, Chief, Acquisition 
Division, National Park Service, ATLAFO, PO Box 908, Martinsburg, WV 
25402, (304) 263-4943.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pub. L. 91-664, enacted January 8, 1971 
authorizes the acquisition of certain lands for the Chesapeake and Ohio 
Canal National Historical Park. Section 7 (c) (ii) of the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act, as amended by Pub. L. 104-333, authorizes 
minor boundary revisions of areas within the National Park System. In 
accordance with the statutes, such boundary revisions may be made, when 
necessary, after advising the appropriate Congressional Committees and 
following publication in the Federal Register.
    In order to properly interpret and preserve the historic character 
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, it is 
necessary to revise the existing boundary to include one additional 
tract of land comprising approximately 2.91 acres.
    Notice is hereby given that the exterior boundary of the Chesapeake 
and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is hereby revised to include 
the following tract of land:

Tract P76-1, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, is all 
of the same land acquired by Barbara Ellen Embly from Barbara E. Roher 
by deed dated July 19, 2001, recorded in Deed Book 1677, Page 591, in 
the Land Records of Washington County, State of Maryland.

Tract 76-130, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, is a 
part of the same land acquired by the United States of America (NPS) 
from Charles Harold Snyder, a.k.a. C. Harold Snyder by deed dated 
September 5, 1974, recorded in Liber 585, folio 802 in the Land Records 
of Washington County, State of Maryland.
Subject to existing easements for public roads and highways, public 
utilities, railroads and pipelines.

    This tracts of land is depicted on Segment Map 76 and are 
identified as Tracts P76-1 and 76-130. The map is on file and available 
for inspection in the office of the National Park Service, Appalachian 
Trail Land Acquisition Field Office, 1314 Edwin Miller Boulevard, PO 
Box 908, Martinsburg, West Virginia 25402-0908.

    Dated: July 22, 2002.
Terry R. Carlstrom,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 03-992 Filed 1-15-03; 8:45 am]
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