Pennsylvania Act 2000-60 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN WAYNE, WARREN AND DELAWARE COUNTIES

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN WAYNE, WARREN AND DELAWARE COUNTIES
                  Act of Jun. 22, 2000, P.L. 447, No. 60              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
        with the approval of the Governor, to grant and convey oil,
        gas and mineral rights, including coal, that the Commonwealth
        possesses in a certain parcel of land situate in Canaan
        Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, to the United States of
        America and releasing certain restrictions on that land;
        authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
        with the approval of the Governor, to sell and convey to
        Warren County Conservation District a certain tract of land
        situate in the Township of Glade, Warren County,
        Pennsylvania; and authorizing and directing the Department of
        General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the
        Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, to sell and
        convey to Media Borough a certain tract of land situate in
        Media Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

     Section 1.  Conveyance of oil, gas and mineral rights.
        (a)  The Department of General Services, with the approval of
     the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the
     Federal Government of the United States of America all rights
     and interest in oil, gas and mineral rights, including coal, in
     a tract of land described as follows:
        ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land situated on the west side of
     Canaan Road (T-466) on the southerly side of a 30-foot-wide
     right-of-way and access road in Canaan Township, Wayne County,
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as shown on a plan prepared by
     RETTEW Associates, Inc., drawing number 981890-02, and being
     more fully bounded and described as follows:
        BEGINNING AT A POINT, a P.K. nail (found) in or near the
     centerline of Canaan Road (T-466), said point being the
     northeasterlymost corner of the herein described tract; thence
     in and along the centerline of said Canaan Road the following
     six courses and distances: (1) S 18 degrees 37 minutes 37
     seconds W, (Grid bearing) 376.62 feet (114.794 meters) to a P.K.
     nail (found), (2) S 20 degrees 16 minutes 03 seconds W, 1007.21
     feet (306.998 meters) to a point, (3) S 20 degrees 37 minutes 25
     seconds W, 650.11 feet (198.154 meters) to a point, (4) S 20
     degrees 09 minutes 49 seconds W, 430.41 feet (131.189 meters) to
     a point, (5) S 16 degrees 15 minutes 27 seconds W, 737.88 feet
     (224.906 meters) to a point, and (6) S 21 degrees 45 minutes 15
     seconds W, 213.42 feet (65.051 meters) to a point in or near the
     centerline intersection of said Canaan Road and a stream; thence
     in and along the centerline of said stream several courses and
     distances for a total distance of 4,640 feet, more or less,
     (1,414.27 meters, more or less) to a point in or near the
     centerline of a 20-foot-road right-of-way easement leading to an
     existing cemetery southwest of the herein described property and
     for purposes of mathematical closure a survey line follows the
     stream as follows: N 20 degrees 48 minutes 23 seconds W, 1948.43
     feet (593.883 meters) to a point; thence continuing along a
     survey line N 42 degrees 21 minutes 18 seconds W, 1,848.03 feet
     (563.281 meters) to aforesaid point in and along the centerline
     of a 20-foot-wide road access easement; thence in and along the
     centerline of said 20-foot-wide road easement N 51 degrees 09
     minutes 39 seconds E, 130.05 feet (39.639 meters) to a point in
     or near the centerline of a 30-foot-wide right-of-way leading to
     Owego Turnpike, said road right-of-way being used as an access
     road; thence in and along said 30-foot-wide right-of-way access
     road the following nine courses and distances: (1) S 51 degrees
     14 minutes 34 seconds E, 212.56 feet (64.788 meters), (2) S 72
     degrees 31 minutes 09 seconds E, 229.70 feet (70.013 meters) to
     a point, (3) S 79 degrees 57 minutes 23 seconds E, 265.26 feet
     (80.851 meters) to a point, (4) S 82 degrees 48 minutes 27
     seconds E, 615.96 feet (187.745 meters) to a point, (5) S 88
     degrees 53 minutes 59 seconds E, 390.20 feet (118.933 meters) to
     a point, (6) N 78 degrees 13 minutes 32 seconds E, 392.54 feet
     (119.646 meters) to a point, (7) N 52 degrees 09 minutes 11
     seconds E, 131.06 feet (39.947 meters) to a point, (8) N 39
     degrees 04 minutes 36 seconds E, 60.11 feet (18.322 meters) to a
     point; and (9) N 35 degrees 17 minutes 15 seconds E, 336.96 feet
     (102.706 meters) to a 1/2 inch rebar (found) in or near the
     centerline intersection of aforesaid access road and another
     access road leading to aforesaid Canaan Road; thence in and
     along said access road leading to Canaan Road S 71 degrees 49
     minutes 51 seconds E, 631.99 feet (192.631 meters) to the POINT
     OF BEGINNING.
        CONTAINING: 96.449 acres, more or less, and being a portion
     of that property conveyed under a deed recorded in the Office of
     the Recorder of Deeds in Wayne County, Deed Book 510, Page 572,
     which deed was modified by a supplemental deed dated January 24,
     1994, and recorded in the same office on May 19, 1994, Deed Book
     934, Page 191.
        (b)  Restrictions imposed under the act of January 19, 1968
     (1967 P.L.992, No.442), entitled "An act authorizing the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the local government units
     thereof to preserve, acquire or hold land for open space uses,"
     upon the use of the property described under subsection (a) are
     hereby released.
        (c)  The deed of conveyance of the rights referred to in
     subsection (a) and releasing the specified restrictions in
     accordance with subsection (b) shall be approved as provided by
     law and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services
     in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        (d)  Costs and fees incidental to the conveyance authorized
     by this section shall be borne by the Grantee.
     Section 2.  Conveyance to Warren County Conservation District.
        (a)  The Department of General Services, with the approval of
     the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant, sell and convey to the
     Warren County Conservation District, for consideration equal to
     the fair market value as determined by an independent appraisal,
     a tract of land as further described below.
        (b)  The property to be conveyed is a single tract of land
     situate in the Township of Glade, Warren County, Pennsylvania,
     bounded and described as follows:
        Commencing at a set 1/2 inch rebar located at the
     intersection of the westerly right-of-way of Conewango Avenue
     Extension and the northerly right-of-way of Hatch Run Road, said
     rebar being the Point of Beginning:
        Thence North 00 degrees 40 minutes 48 seconds East a distance
     of 566.06 feet along the westerly right-of-way of Conewango
     Avenue Extension to a set 1/2 inch rebar;
        Thence North 81 degrees 06 minutes 21 seconds East a distance
     of 261.06 feet along lands of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     to a set 1/2 inch rebar;
        Thence South 00 degrees 40 minutes 48 seconds West a distance
     of 619.63 feet severing lands of The Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania to a set 1/2 inch rebar;
        Thence North 85 degrees 39 minutes 42 seconds West a distance
     of 141.46 feet along the northerly right-of-way of Hatch Run
     Road to a set 1/2 inch rebar;
        Thence South 04 degrees 20 minutes 18 seconds West a distance
     of 5.00 feet along the northerly right-of-way of Hatch Run Road
     to a set 1/2 inch rebar;
        Thence North 86 degrees 18 minutes 06 seconds West a distance
     of 116.09 feet along the northerly right-of-way of Hatch Run
     Road to a set 1/2 inch rebar, said rebar being the Point of
     Beginning.
        CONTAINING a total area of 152,460.0 Sq. Ft. or 3.5 Acres.
        BEING DEPICTED on a survey plat (Number C98214) prepared by
     John E. Cox, Professional Land Surveyor, on November 10, 1998.
        LESS AND ACCEPTING a permanent thirty-foot-wide right-of-way
     across the tract of land from Conewango Avenue Extension to the
     remaining 347.50 acre parcel.
        (c)  The conveyance authorized by this section shall be made
     under and subject to all lawful and enforceable easements,
     servitudes and rights of others, including, but not confined to,
     streets, roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, cable,
     water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as well as
     under the subject to any lawful and enforceable interest,
     estates or tenancies vested in third persons, appearing of
     record, for any portion of the land or improvements erected
     thereon.
        (d)  The deed of conveyance authorized by this section shall
     be approved as provided by law and shall be executed by the
     Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania. In the event that this conveyance is not executed
     within 12 months of the effective date of this act, the property
     shall continue to be used by the Warren County Conservation
     District in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
     Interagency Agreement between the Warren County Conservation
     District and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, dated September
     18, 1997.
        (e)  Warren County Conservation District shall obtain
     subdivision approval for the subdivision resulting from this
     conveyance prior to formal closing.
        (f)  Costs and fees incidental to the conveyance authorized
     by this section shall be borne by the Grantees.
     Section 3.  Conveyance of Media National Guard Armory (3
                        repealed December 9, 2002, P.L.1518, No.195)
     Section 4.  Applicability.
        Section 1 shall take effect upon the expenditure of the
     Federal funds appropriated for the construction of a
     correctional facility on the tract described in section 1 or a
     tract adjacent to it, and the Department of General Services
     shall publish the date of such expenditure as a notice in the
     Pennsylvania Bulletin.
     Section 5.  Effective date.
        This act shall take effect immediately.