Volume 75 · 196
Public Law 87–76
To authorize the purchase and exchange of land and interests therein on the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways.
Approved June 30, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the purchase and exchange of land and interests therein on the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways.
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 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.
Approved June 30, 1961.