An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations of land for, and to construct, administer, and maintain an extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the States of North Carolina and Georgia, and for other purposes
PL 90-555 (H.R.1340), enacted 10/09/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-555-OCT. 9, 1968 
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REAPPRAISAL BY THE PRESIDENT 
SEC. 502. (a) In furtherance of the policy of this part, the President 
is requested to make a thorough and comprehensive reappraisal of 
United States foreign assistance programs, as described in section 501, 
and to submit to the Congress, on or before March 31,1970, his recom- 
Recommenda-
mendations for achieving such reforms in and reorganization of future '^°"^' 
foreign assistance programs as he determines to be necessary and ap-
propriate in the national interest in the light of such reappraisal. The 
President is requested to submit to the Congress, on or before J u l j 1, Report to 
1969, an interim report presenting any preliminary recommendations <^°"8'"*^^-
formulated by him pursuant to this section. 
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(b) It is the sense of the Congress that the reappraisal provided for 
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in subsection (a) should include, but not be limited to, an analysis and 1 
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consideration of proposals concerning the establishment of a Govern- 1 /? ^ j>^ 
ment corporation or a federally chartered private corporation designed j 
to mobilize and facilitate the use of United States private capital and I 
skills in less developed friendly countries and areas, including whether I 
such corporation should be authorized to— 
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(1) utilize Government guarantees and funds as well as private ] 
funds; 
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(2) seek, develop, promote, and underwrite new investment 1 
projects; 
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(3) assist in transferring skills and technology to less developed 
friendly countries and areas; and 
(4) invest in the securities of development financing institutions 
and assist in the formation and expansion of local capital markets. 
Approved October 8, 1968. 
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Public Law 90-555 
AN ACT 
October 9, 1968 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations of land for, and to 
[H. R. 1340] 
construct, administer, and maintain an extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway 
in the States of North Carolina and Georgia, and for otther purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and. House of Reirresentatwes 
of the 
United States of Afnerlca in Congress assemhted, That the Secretary of 
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the Interior is authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, li^^!'^^' "*'"" 
donations of land and interests in land in the States of North Carolina 
and Georgia, to construct thereon an extension of the Blue Ridge Park-
way from the vicinity of Beech Gap, North Carolina, to the vicinity of 
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park north of Atlanta and 
Marietta, Georgia, and to provide public use, administration, and 
maintenance areas in connection therewith. The lands accepted for the 
parkway extension may vary in width but shall average not more than 
one hundred and twenty-five acres per mile in fee simple plus not more 
than twenty-five acres per mile in scenic easements. The survey loca-
tion and width of any portion of the parkway extension that crosses 
national forest land shall be jointly determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. Where the parkway exten-
sion designated by the Secretary of the Interior traverses Federal 
lands, the head of the department or agency having jurisdiction over 
such lands is authorized to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior the 
part of the Federal lands mutually agreed upon as necessary for the 
construction, maintenance, and administration of the parkway exten-
sion and public use thereof, without transfer of funds. Any such 
transfer within a national forest shall not preclude any national forest 
use that is compatible with parkway use and that is agreed upon by the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. 
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PUBLIC LAW 90-555-OCT. 9, 1968 
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SEC. 2. To effectuate the recommendations in the report to the Con-
gress on the North Carolina-Georgia extension of the Blue Ridge Park-
way, made pursuant to the Act of August 10, 1961 (75 Stat. 337) — 
(1) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agricul-
ture shall, insofar as practicable, coordinate and correlate recrea-
tional development on lands within the parkway and adjacent or 
related national forest lands: Provided, That within national for-
est boundaries recreational developments and facilities on Federal 
lands other than those actually within the national parkway shall 
be administered by the Secretary of xlgriculture; 
(2) Upon the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secre-
tary of tiie Interior shall relocate and reconstruct any national 
forest roads that may be disturbed by the parkway extension, or 
provide alternative roads that are necessary to the protection, 
administration, or utilization of the national forests, and shall 
allow access to areas to be developed by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture on adjacent national forest lands unless to do so will mate-
rially impair the primary purposes of the parkway; 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior may relocate and reconstruct 
portions of the Appalachian Trail, including trail shelters, that 
may be disturbed by the parkway extension and such relocation 
and reconstruction may be performed (A) on non-Federal lands 
when the Appalachian Trail Conference obtains the consent of the 
owner to the use of the lands for the purpose and agrees to assume 
maintenance thereof, and (B) upon national forest lands with the 
approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. 
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^^^* ^' "^^^ Secretary of the Interior may issue revocable licenses or 
permits for rights-of-way over, across, and upon parkway lands, or for 
the use of parkway lands by the owners or lessees of adjacent lands, or 
for such purposes and under such terms and conditions as he may deter-
mine to be consistent with the use of such lands for parkway purposes. 
SEC. 4. The parkway extension herein authorized shall be a part of 
the Blue Ridge Parkway and shall be administered and maintained by 
the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the laws and regula-
tions applicable thereto, including the Act of May 13, 1952 (66 Stat. 
69;16U.S.C.460a-4). 
SEC. 5. With the concurrence of the Secretary of Agriculture the 
Secretary of the Interior may transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture 
for national forest purposes lands or interests in lands within national 
forests acquired for, or in connection with, the parkway extension. 
author'iza'tu>n°" 
^^^' ^- There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, for construc-
tion of the Blue Ridge Parkway extension, not more than $87,536,000, 
plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of 
fluctuations 
in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost 
indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. 
Approved October 9, 1968.