PRINTER'S NO. 1909

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1499 Session of 1978


        INTRODUCED BY SCANLON, JUNE 1, 1978

        REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, JUNE 1, 1978

                                     AN ACT

     1  Authorizing the Department of General Services with the approval
     2     of the Secretary of Environmental Resources, in the name of
     3     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant an easement to
     4     Dravo Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, a 9.5 acre
     5     tract of land within the bed of the Back Channel of the Ohio
     6     River situate in Neville Township, Allegheny County,
     7     Pennsylvania, adjacent to and having a common boundary with
     8     lands presently owned by the same corporation immediately
     9     adjacent to and to the north thereof.

    10     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    11  hereby enacts as follows:
    12     Section 1.  The Department of General Services, with the
    13  approval of the Secretary of Environmental Resources, acting on
    14  behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized
    15  to grant an easement, for the consideration of $1 to Dravo
    16  Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, with executive offices
    17  in the city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, its
    18  successors and assigns, a 9.5 acre tract of land, more or less,
    19  within the bed of the Back Channel of the Ohio River in Neville
    20  Township for the purpose of constructing dock facilities at
    21  approximately mile 7.5. The 9.5 acre tract, more or less, is
    22  described as follows:

     1     All that certain tract of land situate in Neville Township,
     2  County of Allegheny, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being
     3  portions of Lot Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 in the Ohio River
     4  Back Channel Plan of lots, laid out by R. A. Phillips, which
     5  plan of lots is recorded in the Recorder's Office of Allegheny
     6  County, Pennsylvania, in Plan Book Special, page 6, said
     7  portions of said lots being more particularly bounded and
     8  described as follows, to-wit:
     9     Beginning at a point in the Back Channel of the Ohio River at
    10  the dividing line between Lot Nos. 21 and 22 in said plan and at
    11  the intersection of said dividing line with the southerly line
    12  of said Ohio River Back Channel Plan of lots; thence along said
    13  dividing line between Lot Nos. 21 and 22 north 14 degrees 9
    14  minutes 20 seconds east a distance of 320 feet, more or less, to
    15  a point on the southerly shore of Neville Island, at the normal
    16  Dashields pool elevation 692; thence south 80 degrees 0 minutes
    17  0 seconds east up said shoreline, a distance of 1450 feet, more
    18  or less, to the line of property now or formerly of Pittsburgh
    19  DeMoines Steel Company; thence south 23 degrees 50 minutes 10
    20  seconds west, a distance of 440 feet, more or less, to a point
    21  in the Back Channel of the Ohio River being the southerly line
    22  of said Ohio River Back Channel Plan of Lots; thence along same
    23  north 76 degrees 26 minutes 50 seconds west down the Ohio River
    24  Back Channel, a distance of 1076.85 feet, to a point; thence
    25  north 72 degrees 45 minutes 30 seconds east along the southerly
    26  line of said Ohio River Back Channel Plan of Lots a distance of
    27  295 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning; containing
    28  9.5 acres, more or less.
    29     Section 2.  The agreement of easement shall be executed by
    30  the Department of General Services in the name of the
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     1  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania after approval by the Department of
     2  Justice with the concurrence of the Secretary of Environmental
     3  Resources.
     4     Section 3.  Costs and fees related to the preparation and
     5  recordation of the easement shall be borne by Dravo Corporation.
     6     Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.
















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