Public Law 87–135

That a sum not

Blue Ridge Parkway survey.

Appropriation authorization.

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 to Congress.

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.