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pahannock League tor Environmental Protection held Thursday, June 29, Jacobsen claimed that the federal law cited by Raabe and others did not apply to parks that have been in existence for more than ten years. He further maintained that the proposed land exchange did not involve altering any boundaries because the maximum boundary authorized by Congress was far larger than the existing boundary. Thus the proposed land transfer, according to Jacobsen, would merely change the ownership of land within the authorized park boundary.
Jacobsen acknowledged that he had initiated the 1975 amendment to the Virginia Code in which the Commonwealth gave up its right to reversion in case of equal value exchange. He explained that he’d pushed for the amendment that would allow park land to leave the system without reverting immediately to ownership by the state to avoid “a small shadow” on the titles of the lands which were being exchanged. Jacobsen stated that this 1975 amendment was removed from the Code in 1976 without his being consulted or notified. However, he insisted that the State of Virginia had no claim to any land relinquished by the Park, since deeds to the Park land had been transferred to the federal government 32 years before the applicable section of the Virginia Code was adopted. At Thursday’s Board of Directors meeting, RLEP unanimously approved a resolution categorically opposing the transfer of any
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