Executive Order 10066—Including Certain Lands in the Cherokee National Forest

WHEREAS on March 29, 1949, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture entered into an agreement providing for the transfer by the Authority to the Department of the right of possession and all other right, title, and interest which the said Authority may have in or to certain lands therein designated and described in Polk County, Tennessee, so reserved as a part of the Cherokee National Forest, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement and subject to the approval thereof by the President of the United States; and

WHEREAS I have this day approved the said agreement between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States department of Agriculture; and

WHEREAS it appears that such lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that their inclusion within the Cherokee National Forest would be in the public interest:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103, and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (16 U.S.C. 471, 473), and as President of the United States, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, I hereby include in and reserve as part of the Cherokee National Forest the following-described lands, such inclusion and reservation to be in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the said agreement of March 29, 1949, between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture:

A tract of land lying in the first Civil District of Polk County, State of Tennessee, immediately north of the Ocoee No. 1 Dam, together with a five-room stucco building located thereon and known as Parksville Village Building #26being that portion of the land acquired by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the name of the United States of America from the Tennessee Electric Power Company lying north of and adjacent to the north right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 64 and west of and adjacent to the east line of sec. 23, TIS, R2E

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 6, 1949