PRINTER'S NO. 2197
No. 140 Session of 1984
INTRODUCED BY WENGER, STAUFFER AND SNYDER, JUNE 26, 1984
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, JUNE 26, 1984
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing the acceptance of a gift of land from E. I. Du Pont
2 de Nemours and Company along White Clay Creek in Chester
3 County, Pennsylvania, for use as a park in concert with the
4 State of Delaware accepting a similar gift in New Castle
5 County, Delaware; and further supporting a bistate advisory
6 body.
7 WHEREAS, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of
8 Delaware desire to create a bistate park along White Clay Creek
9 in said states; and
10 WHEREAS, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company owns
11 approximately 1,234 acres of land along White Clay Creek in
12 Chester County, Pennsylvania, and approximately 528 acres of
13 land, contiguous with aforesaid land, in New Castle County,
14 Delaware, which it desires to donate to the respective states in
15 perpetuity for the park for low intensity outdoor recreational
16 use of the citizens of Pennsylvania and Delaware; therefore be
17 it
18 RESOLVED (the House of Representatives concurring), That the
19 General Assembly hereby supports the acceptance, by the
1 Department of Environmental Resources for the Commonwealth, of a
2 gift from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company of approximately
3 1,234 acres of land along White Clay Creek in Chester County,
4 Pennsylvania, for use in perpetuity as a park for low intensity
5 outdoor recreational use to be administered by the Department of
6 Environmental Resources or its designee and to be known as the
7 White Clay Creek Preserve, it being understood that the General
8 Assembly of Delaware intends to pass a resolution similar to
9 this; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That the General Assembly hereby supports the
11 establishment of a bistate advisory body, composed of members
12 from the Commonwealth and the State of Delaware, who shall be
13 appointed, respectively, by the Secretary of Environmental
14 Resources of the Commonwealth and his counterpart in the State
15 of Delaware, to advise the respective states as to recreation
16 and conservation within the park.
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