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Nitpicking. That’s what it looks like Shenandoah National Park authorities are doing when they insist that no final decision has been reached on the proposed land exchange of 405 acres of Park land in Rappahannock and Warren Counties for 442 acres of privately owned land in Greene County- tyAccording
to the Park’s assistant superintendent, final approval of the environmental assessment statement on the proposed trade and authorization from the National Park Service’s Regional Director have been received. Local Park officials reportedly have the option to reverse the Regional Director's approval and back out on the deal but how many lower level federal bureaucrats buck their bosses?
The record will officially be open for at least 30 more days to receive public comment on the environmental assessment but it looks like another case of locking the bam door after the horse has run off.
The logical time for public response to the land exchange was BEFORE the Regional Direction gave his stamp of approval to the swap.
It’s reasonable to expect Park authorities to make sure their neighbors know what’s going on. Adjoining land owners should have received written notification of the proposal when it was first considered. A legally advertised
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