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[CITE: 16USC403h-12]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
  SUBCHAPTER XLVI--SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS 
                              NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 403h-12. Entrance road to Cataloochee section

    In order to provide suitable access to the Cataloochee section of 
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized to select the location of an entrance road from a point near 
the intersection at White Oak Church of North Carolina Routes Numbered 
1338 and 1346 to the eastern boundary of the park in the vicinity of the 
Cataloochee section, and to accept, on behalf of the United States, 
donations of land and interests in land for the construction of the 
entrance road together with the necessary interchange with said Routes 
1338 and 1346, and to construct the entrance road and the interchange on 
the donated land: Provided, That the right-of-way to be acquired, by 
donation, for the entrance road shall be of such width as to comprise 
not more than an average of one hundred and twenty-five acres per mile 
for its entire length of about five and two-tenths miles, constituting 
in the aggregate about six hundred and fifty acres of land.
    All property acquired pursuant to this section shall become a part 
of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park upon acceptance of title 
thereto by the Secretary, and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and 
regulations applicable thereto.

(Pub. L. 88-120, Sec. 1, Sept. 9, 1963, 77 Stat. 154; Pub. L. 91-108, 
Sec. 1(1), (2), Nov. 4, 1969, 83 Stat. 182.)


                               Amendments

    1969--Pub. L. 91-108 provided for a modified route for the entrance 
road, changing it to near the intersection at White Oak Church of North 
Carolina Routes Numbered 1338 and 1346 from a point on North Carolina 
Highway Numbered 107 close to its point of interchange with Interstate 
Route Numbered 40, near Hepco, North Carolina, for construction of an 
interchange between the entrance road and State Routes 1338 and 1346, 
and acceptance of a donation of land needed for the interchange; and 
increased the entrance road from a length of four and two-tenths mile 
aggregating five hundred and twenty-five acres of land to a length of 
five and two-tenths mile aggregating six hundred and fifty acres, 
respectively.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 403h-13 of this title.
