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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 4 1 - J U N E 11, 1959
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Public Law 86-41 AN ACT To provide for the acquisition of additional land along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway in exchange for certain dredging privileges, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to protect more adequately the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, to add further to its memorial character, and in order to acquire an area of irreplaceable wet lands near the Nation's Capitol which is valuable for the production and preservation of wildlife, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to carry out the following transactions with the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation: (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire certain lands in exchange for certain dredging and other rights on land already owned by the United States on the east side of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highw^ay in Fairfax County, Virginia, extending from approximately station 42G to station 516 + 50, shown as areas "A", " B ", "C", and " D " on plan numbered 105.22-415 in the files of the National Capital Planning Commission and more particularly set forth as follows: (1) To accept on behalf of the United States of America a good and sufficient title in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, to that piece of land lying on the east side of the Mount Vernon Memorial JFIighway and extending from approximately opposite station 459 to station 516 + 50, approximately five thousand seven hundred and fifty feet in length and averaging approximately eight hundred feet in Avidth, and containing one hundred and ten acres, more or less, and as further shown as area " A " on said plan. (2) To accept on behalf of the United States of America a good and sufficient title in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, to area " D " lying between area " A " and the Potomac River, and containing one hundred and fifty acres, more or less; the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation reserving unto itself, its successors and assigns, the right to remove sand and gravel therefrom for a period of thirty years, and for the same period reserving such riparian rights as may exist in area "D". (3) To permit the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation, its successors and assigns, to remove sand and gravel from that part of United States property lying east of area " B " and opposite stations 426 to 459, to the extent of eighty-five acres, of the total one hundred and ten acres in area "C", as shown on said plan, for a period of twenty years, and for the same period granting such riparian rights as may exist in this area. (4) To require that the scope of dredging operations necessary to remove the sand and gravel in areas " C " and " D " be so limited and conducted as not to undermine the adjacent shores of areas " A " and " B "; and to allow the workmen employed in the dredging operations at the locations described above to have access to the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway for the purpose of going to and from work, and to park their cars at designated places. (b) The Secretary of the Interior is hereby further authorized to prescribe in any contract or contracts entered into pursuant hereto any other terms and conditions deemed necessary to protect the interests of the United States in the above transactions, including conditions governing the conduct of dredging operations, the deposition of spoil, and the revegetation of spoil areas, so that these activities will
June 11, 1959 [H. R. 2228]
Mount \ ' e r n o n Memorial Highway.
Acquisition of land.
Contractu. Term s and conditions.
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