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purposes of inclusion in the Shenandoah National Park, even those made after its enactment.”
Watts maintained there is “no indication” that the Commonwealth intended to repeal or amend the Virginia transfer park land to the U. S. without any title restrictions.
He also cited “the rule of construction that a specific statute takes precedence over a general one” to back up his argument that land exchanges are legal under Virginia law. Watts noted
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Park Superintendent Robert Jacobsen, in a letter to the Rappahannock News dated August 21, i acknowledged that the opinion by the Associate Solicitor of the Department of the Interior finds the recently proposed land exchange “legal in all respects.”
"It is very clear, during the current General Management Planning process, that attention will be directed toward the solution of the Park’s many boundarycaused problems, and that a number of proposals involving changes in publicprivate ownership will be formulated and arrayed for consideration,” Jacobsen continued. “I will appreciate constructive assistance in this effort.” he added, and Insular Affairs Committee to determine if Watts’s opinion "is in line with their thinking or not” as regards the legality of land exchanges under federal law. According to McGill, Congressman Robinson is in a “holding position” until his staff can research Watts’ assertions on the legislative < history of federal law that Watts maintains land exchanges like the transfer proposed in Rappahannock. s McGill said that Kathy < Pauli, a first-year law student 5 at the University of Virginia ' interning in Robinson’s office • for the summer, has been l working almost full-time on I the land exchange question. I McGill, himself an attorney, ' added that he was also > devoting a great deal of time | to the issue, working closely I with Miss Pauli. < “I can assure you that | we’re following through on i this." McGill concluded. I
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