An Act to authorize an exchange of lands at Wupatki National Monument, Ariz., to provide access to certain ruins in the monument, to add certain federally owned lands to the monument, and for other purposes.
PL 87-136 (H.R.7240), enacted 08/10/1961

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Public Law 87-135 
AN ACT 
August 10, 1961 
To provide for an appropriation of a sum not to exceed $35,000 with which to 
[H. R. 6067] 
make a survey of a proposed national parkway from the Blue Ridge Park-
way at Tennessee Bald or Beech Gap southwest and running into the State of 
Georgia. 
Be it BTiacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not ^f^^^tJl*^*'.*^**' 
exceeding $35,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the 
Appropriation 
Treasury of the United States, to be used by the Department of the authorization. 
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 Caro-
lina, 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 construct-
ing 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 Agricul-
ture 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. 
Approved August 10, 1961. 
Public Law 87-136 
AN ACT 
August 1
0
„ 1961 
To authorize an exchange of lands at Wupatki National Monument, Arizona, to 
[H. R. 7240] 
provide access to certain ruins in the monument, to add certain federally owned 
lands to the monument, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
wupatki National 
of the Interior may, in his discretion, obtain a valid title for the "^"L Tn"d T'e *. 
United States to the lands described as: southeast quarter, section 17, change. 
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and section 29, township 26 north, range 10 east, Gila and Salt River 
meridian, for addition to the Wupatki National Monument in ex-
change for lands of approximately equal value described as: southwest 
quarter, section 16, township 26 north, range 10 east, and section 32, 
township 26 north, range 9 east, Gila and Salt River meridian. 
The 
lands conveyed by the Secretary and the privately owned land known 
as northwest quarter, section 21, township 26 north, range 10 east, 
Gila and Salt River meridian, shall, after execution of the exchange, 
cease to be a part of the Wupatki National Monument. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary may, in his discretion, accept the donation 
of a permanent easement for a road right-of-way two hundred feet