PRINTER'S NO. 1909
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 19780S1499B1909 - 2 -
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. E31L53JKD/19780S1499B1909 - 3 -