An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the State of Tennessee certain lands within Great Smoky Mountains National Park and certain lands comprising the Gatlinburg Spur of the Foothills Parkway, and for other purposes
PL 91-57 (H.R.2785), enacted 08/09/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-57-AUG. 9, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
81 Stat. 902. 
42 u s e 1396a. 
required to be included pursuant to subsection (a) (13). Any increase 
in the formula or other standard for determining payments for those 
types of care or services which, after such modification, are provided 
under the State plan shall be made only after approval thereof by 
the Secretary." 
Approved August 9, 1969. 
Public Law 91-57 
August 9, 1969 
AN ACT 
[H.R. 2785] 
To auithorize the Secretary of Uie Interior to convey to the State of Tennessee 
certam lands within Great Smoky Mountains National Park and certain lands 
comprising the Gatlinburg Spur of the Foothills Parkway, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
state of 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
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to such conditions as he may deem necessary to preserve the natural 
beauty of the adjacent park lands, approximately twenty-eight acres 
of land comprising a portion of the right-of-way of Tennessee State 
Route 72 (U.S. 129), and approximately forty-one acres comprising 
portions of the right-of-way of Tennessee State Route 73 east of 
Gatlinburg, which are Avithin the boundary of Great Smoky Mountains 
National Park. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is further authorized to convey to the State 
of Tennessee, subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary 
to assure administration and maintenance thereof by the State and 
to preserve the existing parkway character of the conveyed lands, the 
rights-of-way heretofore conveyed to the United States for the pur-
ix)ses of the Gatlinburg Spur of the Foothills Parkway together with 
any and all parcels of land heretofore conveyed by the State of Ten-
nessee to the United States for the control and stabilization of land-
slides along said Gatlinburg Spur, except such lands as the Secretary 
determines may be necessary to provide for (1) the interchange 
between the road known as the Gatlinburg bypass and United States 
441, (2) the interchange between United States Highway 441 and the 
Foothills Parkway in the vicinity of Caney Creek, and (3) the man-
agement and administration of the Foothills Parkway: Provided^ That 
such reconveyance shall not be effected until construction of the 
Gatlinburg bypass and of two rock retaining walls to control erosion 
on the Gatlinburg Spur are completed, and Interstate Route 40 is 
open to public travel from Newport, Tennessee to United States Route 
19 near Waynesville, North Carolina. 
SEC. 3. Tlie conveyance of the lands described in sections 1 and 2 of 
this Act shall eliminate them from the park and parkway. Upon such 
conveyance and upon acceptance by the State of Tennessee of legisla-
tive jurisdiction over the lands and notification of such acceptance 
being given to the Secretary of the Interior, such jurisdiction is 
retroceded to the State. 
Approved August 9, 1969.