hundredths acres, more or less, and lying entirely within Swain County. The lands last above described shall constitute a part of the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina and shall be held by the United States in trust for said band and shall be nontaxable and nonalienable as other lands of said reservation. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose Agreement. of insuring prompt and full compliance with the conditions relating to the exchange of lands hereby affected, as set forth in the said Resolution Numbered 33 of October 17, 1947, is hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the Governor of the State of North Carolina which shall contain assurance that the present Indian Service road at Wolf Laurel shall remain open for Indian use without restriction; provide for the construction by the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission, at its own expense, of a hardsurface access road of suitable width from Mollie Gap to the site of the proposed tourist development to be made on tribal land in the vicinity of Soco Bald; and set forth such other terms and conditions as may be mutually desirable for effectuating the purposes of the said resolution. An Act To authorize the transfer of certain lands of the Blue Parkway. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, when in his judgment the public interest Blue Ridge will be served thereby, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, upon concurrence of the Secretary of Agriculture, to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture for national forest purposes lands or interests in lands acquired for or in connection with the Blue Ridge Parkway. Lands transferred under this Act shall become national forest lands subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to lands acquired pursuant to the Weeks Law of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), as amended. (16 U.S.C. § 460a-4.) An Act To authorize the purchase and exchange of land and interests therein on the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways, approved June 30, 1961 (75 Stat. 196) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to consolidate, on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Natchez Trace Parkway, the land forming each such parkway, to adjust ownership lines, and to eliminate hazardous crossings of and accesses to these parkways, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, by purchase or exchange, land 16 U.S.C. 513-519, 521, 552, 563. §§ 480, 500, Blue Ridge and Parkways. acquisition. Natchez Trace Land Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Parkway survey. Appropriation authorization. Report to and interests in land contiguous to the parkways. In consummating exchanges under this Act, the Secretary may transfer parkway land, interests therein, and easements: Provided, That the property rights so exchanged shall be approximately equal in value. (16 U.S.Č. § 460a-5.) An Act To transfer a section of Blue Ridge Parkway to the Shenandoah National Park, in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1961 (75 Stat. 192) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to valid existing rights, the lands and interests in lands which comprise section 1-A of the Blue Ridge Parkway and lie between the southern boundary of the Shenandoah National Park at Jarman Gap and parkway centerline station 448+00 at Rockfish Gap are excluded from the parkway, made a part of the Shenandoah National Park, and shall be administered in accordance with the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1-4), as amended and supplemented. (16 U.S.C. § 403-3.) An Act To provide for an appropriation of a sum not to exceed $35,000 with which to make a survey of a proposed national parkway from the Blue Ridge Parkway at Tennessee Bald or Beech Gap southwest and running into the State of Georgia, approved August 10, 1961 (75 Stat. 337) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding $35,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States, to be used by the Department of the Interior through the National Park Service and by the Department of Commerce through the Bureau of Public Roads, with which to make a survey, now directed, of the route of a proposed national parkway extending from the Blue Ridge Parkway at or near Tennessee Bald or Beech Gap in North Carolina and running in a southwesterly direction by Cashiers, North Carolina, and Highlands, North Carolina, into the State of Georgia in the direction of Atlanta, Georgia, the survey to recommend the most desirable terminating point of said parkway. An estimate of the cost of construction of an appropriate national parkway, comparable with the Blue Ridge Parkway, over the indicated route, together with such other data as may be of value, shall be obtained through the said survey, hereby authorized, for the purpose of determining the feasibility and desirability of constructing the proposed national parkway, or any portions thereof. Final report of such survey, accompanied by full information and data, with recommendations, shall, at the earliest possible date, be made and submitted to the Congress of the United States for its consideration: Provided, That the survey of such portions of the proposed national parkway as may be located within the exterior boundaries of a national forest shall be made in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, and the comments and recommendations of the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to such portions shall be set forth in the final report to be submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of the Interior. 2. George Washington Memorial Parkway Page Acquisition, establishment, and development of parkway- ---Act of May 29, 1930 474 478 479 480 481 482 Amendment to Act of May 29, 1930, relative to Federal expenditures--- -Act of August 27, 1958 District of Park and play Sum authorized Post, pp. 864, An Act For the acquisition, establishment, and development of the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls, and to provide for the acquisition of lands in the District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Virginia requisite to the comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital, approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat, 482) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress ground system. assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $9,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury not development of. Otherwise appropriated, for acquiring and developing, except as in this section otherwise provided, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1924, entitled "An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital," as amended, such lands in the States of Maryland and Virginia as are necessary and desirable for the park and parkway system of the National Capital in the environs of Washington. Such funds shall be appropriated as required for the expeditious, economical, and efficient development and completion of the following projects: Available for designated projects and George Washington Memorial Parkway. Area included. Description. (a) For the George Washington Memorial Parkway, to include the shores of the Potomac, and adjacent lands, from Mount Vernon to a point above the Great Falls on the Virginia side, except within the city of Alexandria, and from Fort Washington to a similar point above the Great Falls on the Maryland side except within the District of Columbia, and including the protection_and preservation of the natural scenery of the Gorge and the Great Falls of the Potomac, the preservation of the historic Patowmack Canal, and the acquisition of that portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal below Point of Provisos. future navigation improve ments, etc., of Potomac River. Title to vest in United States. Administration of, and Mount by Director of Ante, p. 139. p. 983. ning Commis py Government Rocks, $7,500,000: Provided, That the acquisition of any Acquired lands land in the Potomac River Valley for park purposes not to debar shall not debar or limit, or abridge its use for such works as Congress may in the future authorize for the improvement and the extension of navigation, including the connecting of the upper Potomac River with the Ohio River, or for flood control or irrigation or drainage, or for the development of hydroelectric power. The title to the lands acquired hereunder shall vest in the United States, and said lands, including the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway authorized by the Act approved May 23, 1928, upon its completion, shall be maintained and administered by the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, who shall exercise all the authority, power, and duties with respect to lands acquired under this section as are conferred upon him within the District of Columbia by the Act approved February 26, 1925; and said director is authorized to incur such expenses as may be necessary for the proper p. 1292. administration and maintenance of said lands within the limits of the appropriations from time to time granted therefor from the Treasury of the United States, which appropriations are hereby authorized. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission is authorized to occupy such lands belonging to the United States as may be necessary for the development and protection of said parkway and to accept the donation to the United States of any other lands by it deemed desirable for inclusion in said parkway. As to any lands in Maryland or Virginia along or adjacent to the shores of the Potomac within the proposed limits of the parkway that would involve great expense for their acquisition and are held by said commission not to be essential to the proper carrying out of the project, the acquisition of said lands shall not be required, upon a finding of the commission to that effect. Said parkway shall include a highway from Fort Washington to the Great Falls on the Maryland side of the Potomac and a free bridge across the Potomac at or near Great Falls and necessary approaches to said bridge: Provided, That no money shall be expended by the United States for lands for any unit of this project until the National Capital Park and Planning Commission shall have received definite commitments from the State of Maryland or Virginia, or political subdivisions thereof or from other responsible sources for one-half the cost of acquiring the lands in its judgment necessary for such unit of said project deemed by said commission sufficiently complete, other than lands now belonging to the United States or donated to the United States: Provided further, That no money shall be expended by the United States for the construction of said highway on the Maryland side of the Potomac, except as part of the Federal-aid highway program: Park and Plansion may occulands, and accept donations, ment of Park. Adjacent lands, cost, not to be acquired. for develop at prohibitive Highway conWashington and Md., and free bridge, necting Fort Great included. No expenditures for land, ments for oneceived from the State, etc. until commit half cost re Federal ex- limited to Federal-aid |