Volume 75
Public Law 87–71
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
Statutory text
AN ACT
To transfer a section of Blue Ridge Parkway to the Shenandoah National Park, in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes.
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.
Approved June 30, 1961.