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(Continued from Page 1) property—was purchased in 1962 under legislation passed in August, 1946. According to this act, Jacobsen said, the Park is authorized to purchase lands and rights-of-way for the use and protection of water rights.
The acreage bought in 1962 is near the visitors center at Dickey Ridge. “It was the only way we could find water on top of that ridge," said Jacobsen, adding that the nearest spring line was over one mile away. "That was the last and only time the Park purchased property outright,” he noted. In every other case of land purchase during the depression years, said Jacobsen, federal funds channeled through the Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development were used.
Two weeks ago. Superintendent Jacobsen authorized a 30-day extension to July 25 in the time allotted for public review of the land transfer’s environmental assessment statement. Petitions circulating *abound Rappahannock County call for action ranging from a 90-day extension to abandonment of plans for the exchange. At last week’s special budget session, the Supervisors voted in executive session to request that the Park authorities hold a public hearing on the land trade.
In an answer addressed to Supervisor chairman E. P. Luke, Jacobsen said he would be pleased to arrange for such a hearing but added that he felt it would be “counterproductive prior to a thorough exploration of several legal issues" raised regarding the proposed swap.
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