[Federal Register: October 28, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 208)]
[Notices]               
[Page 57703-57704]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

 
Zion National Park, Utah; Order Adjusting the Boundary of Zion 
National Park to Include and Exclude Certain Lands

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority contained in Public Law 104-333, 
November 12, 1996, (110 Stat. 4105), and as certain lands authorized to 
be acquired and conveyed by exchange by the Secretary of the Interior 
have now been so exchanged, the boundaries of Zion National Park are 
being revised accordingly.


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DATES: The effective date of this Order shall be the date of the 
Federal Register publication in which this Order appears.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The above-cited Act authorizes the Secretary 
of the Interior to acquire certain lands adjacent to Zion National Park 
and, in exchange, convey all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in certain other lands within Zion National Park and, upon 
completion of such exchange, to revise the park boundary to include 
within the park such lands acquired in the exchange, and to exclude 
such conveyed lands from the park. The total acreage of Zion National 
Park will be increased by 0.07 acres by this boundary adjustment.
    Subject to valid existing rights, the following described lands are 
hereby added to Zion National Park to be administered in accordance 
with the laws and regulations applicable thereto:
    A parcel of land situated in the County of Washington, State of 
Utah, being more particularly described as follows:
    Beginning at a point North 0 deg.14'52'' East, along the Quarter 
(\1/4\) Section Line, 882.51 feet from the Southeast Corner of the 
Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE\1/4\SW\1/4\) of Section 
28, Township 41 South, Range 10 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, and 
running thence North 0 deg.14'52'' East, along the Quarter (\1/4\) 
Section line, 370.92 feet; thence South 61 deg.35'25'' West 341.11 
feet; thence South 7 deg.18'04'' East 35.38 feet; thence South 
35 deg.14'19'' West 98.75 feet; thence South 30 deg.06'05'' West 437.48 
feet; thence South 51 deg.35'40'' West 82.93 feet; thence South 
31 deg.00'50'' West 143.23 feet; thence South 52 deg.08'52'' East 
149.84 feet; thence North 40 deg.13'07'' East 487.83 feet; thence South 
89 deg.17'32'' East 142.17 feet; thence North 36 deg.25'36'' East 
225.05 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 5.40 acres, more or 
less.
    The following described lands are hereby excluded from Zion 
National Park: Township 41 South, Range 11 West, Salt Lake Base and 
Meridian, Washington County, Utah, Section 5: All of Lot 6. Containing 
5.33 acres, more or less.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chief, Land Resources Program Center, 
Intermountain Region, P.O. Box 728, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0728, 
(505) 988-6810.

    Dated: October 14, 1998.
John H. King,
Acting Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 98-28784 Filed 10-27-98; 8:45 am]
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