Executive Order 10267—Declaring Certain Lands in the Nantahala National Forest

WHEREAS on March 22, 1951, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture entered into an agreement (designated as a supplemental agreement of transfer) providing for the transfer by the said Authority to the said Department of the right of possession and all other right, title, and interest which the Authority might have in or to certain lands therein designated and described in Swain County, North Carolina so that such lands might be included in and reserved as a part of the Nantahala 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 the inclusion of such lands in the Nantahala 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 Nantahala 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 22, 1951, between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture. LANDS INCLUDED IN THE NANTAHALA NATIONAL FOREST TRACT 6 A tract of land lying the Nantahala Forneys Creek, and Charleston Townships of swain County, State of North Carolina, on the east shores of the Little Tennessee and Nantahala River Arms of Fontana Lake and on the south shores of the Tuckasegee River Arm of the lake, and extending from a point on the Tuckasegee River Arm approximately 5 miles upstream from its confluence with the Little Tennessee River Arm, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point (Coordinates: N. 644,119; E. 661,436) in the center line of Laurel Branch and in the US-TVA Purchase Boundary, the said point being witnessed by an iron pipe and hemlock stump and being approximately 1,825 feet upstream from the mount of Laurel Branch in the Tuckasegee River Arm of Fontana Lake, the mouth of Laurel Branch being approximately 3 ½ miles downstream along the Tucksegee River Arm from Bryson City. From the initial point with the US-TVA Purchase Boundary, N 12o 21' W, 636 feet to an iron pipe; HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, July 3, 1951