Assateague Island Administrative History

¹Legislative support data accompanying memorandum, Regional Director Chester L. Brooks, Mid—Atlantic Region, NPS, to Assistant Director, Legislation, Apr. 25, 1975, in NPS Office of Legislation, Washington, D.C. (hereinafter cited as WASO—170).

²1934 seashore study transmitted by memorandum, NPS Director Arno B. Cammerer to Secretary of the Interior, Jan. 2, 1935, NPS Energy Conservation and Technology Division, Washington, D.C. (hereinafter cited as WASO—493); memorandum, Wendell Little to Director, Oct. 1, 1938, WASO-493; letter, Desmond to Wirth, Oct. 25, 1939, WASO-493; "Supplemental Report on the Proposed Rehoboth—Assateague National Seashore," NPS Region One Office, July 1947, copy in Mid—Atlantic Regional Office, Philadelphia, Pa. (Wirth statement, appended, dated Oct. 1, 1940).

³"Supplemental Report on the Proposed Rehoboth—Assateague National Seashore," p. 4.

⁴H.R. 16, 77th Congress, Jan. 3, 1941; H.R. 27, 78th Congress, Jan. 6, 1943; H.R. 27, 79th Congress, Jan. 3, 1945; H.R. 791, 80th Congress, Jan. 10, 1947.

⁵Memorandum, Olmsted to NPS Director, Aug. 12, 1941, WASO-493; "Supplemental Report on the Proposed Rehoboth—Assateague National Seashore," pp. 7—8.

⁶Ibid., pp. 18—19.

⁷H.R. 1141, Jan. 7, 1949.

⁸Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,Assateague Island National Seashore, Hearings on S. 20 and S. 1121, 89th Congress, 1st Session, Mar. 17, 18, 19, and 22, 1965, Part 2, p. 309 (hereinafter cited as Senate Hearings, 1965).

⁹Ibid., Part 1, p. 215; National Park Service, Assateague Island Seashore: A Proposal (24 p. brochure, Washington, 1965), p. 3.

¹⁰National Park Service, "A Report on a Seashore Recreation Area Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts," pp. 106—07.

¹¹Legislative support data accompanying memorandum, Regional Director Chester L. Brooks to Assistant Director, Legislation, Apr. 25, 1975, WASO 170; Wendell P. Bradley, "Assateague Island," 41 p. typescript, 1966, copy at Assateague Island National Seashore headquarters. (hereinafter cited as ASIS).

¹²National Park Service, "Preferred Planning Alternative for Assateague Island Comprehensive Plan," August 1979, p. 17.

¹³Ibid.

¹⁴Letter, Stewart L. Udall to Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Mar. 15, 1965, in Senate Report 331, 89th Congress, 1st Session, June 15, 1965.

¹⁵Interview with Udall, June 2, 1982; U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Assateague Island National Seashore, Hearings on H.R. 2701 et al., July 22, 23, and Aug. 16, 1965, p. 55 (hereinafter cited as House Hearings, 1965).

¹⁶Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, "Assateague Island and Vicinity: A Study of Recreational Values and Potential Use," April 1963.

¹⁷A Plan for Private Development of Assateague Island, Maryland," Julian Tarrant, Planning Consultant, Richmond, Va., Sept. 1, 1963.

¹⁸Letter, Udall to Tawes, May 2, 1963, William E. Green Papers, ASIS; Governor's Committee on Assateague Island, "Assateague Island: A Report," May 1973, Green Papers, ASIS; "Landowners Argue Over Assateague's Future," Washington Post, June 25, 1963, ASIS clipping file.

¹⁹William Chapman, "Assateague Promoter Now Favors Park," Washington Post, July 28, 1963, in 109 Congressional Record 13532; Ackerman obituary, Evening Sun, Baltimore, Apr. 16, 1964, clipping in Green Papers, ASIS.

²⁰Memorandum, Chairman Harry A. Boswell, Jr., Economic Development Commission, and Director George W. Hubley, Jr., Department of Economic Development, to Gov. J. Millard Tawes, July 22, 1963, in U.S., Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Assateague Island National Seashore, Hearing on S. 2128, 88th Congress, 2d Session, Aug. 11, 1964, p. 19 (hereinafter cited as Senate Hearing, 1964); State of Maryland Board of Public Works Statement, Assateague Island, Sept. 9, 1963, WASO-170.

²¹Letter, Carver to Brewster, Sept. 4, 1963, WASO-170.

²²Morton press release, Sept. 19, 1963, in Green Papers, ASIS.

²³"Designation of Concession Area," attachment to letter, Max N. Edwards, Assistant to the Secretary and Legislative Counsel, to Sen. Alan Bible, June 2, 1965, WASO-170.

²⁴Senate Hearing, 1964, pp. 33—41.

²⁵Ibid., pp. 80—81.

²⁶Letter, Udall to Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Aug. 10, 1964, in Senate Hearing, 1964, pp. 8—11; Senate Hearing, 1964, pp. 85—86, 94—95.

²⁷Copy of Hartzog statement in WASO-170.

²⁸"Holding the Line," Evening Sun, Baltimore, Dec. 1, 1964, in 111Congressional Record 453; memorandum, C. A. Harpine, Assistant Chief, Division of Land Acquisition, to Chief, Division of Land Acquisition, Feb. 5, 1971, in NPS Washington Office file L1425, Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Md.

²⁹See statement by Assistant Director John F. Shanklin, BOR, Dec. 28, 1964, "Relationship of the Proposed Assateague Island National Seashore to the Recreation Advisory Council Policy Circular No. 1, 'Federal Executive Branch Policy Governing the Selection, Establishment, and Administration of National Recreation Areas,' of March 26, 1963," WASO-170. The council's criteria required that a national recreation area be "a spacious area, developed for high carrying capacity, offering significant recreation opportunities in answer to high priority needs, and conveniently located in urban areas in an area requiring Federal involvement."

³⁰National Park Service, Assateague Island National Seashore: Proposal, 1965.

³¹Letter and attachment, Udall to Jackson, Mar. 15, 1965, in Senate Report 331, 89th Congress, 1st Session, June 15, 1965.

³²Senate Hearings, 1965, Part 1, pp. 27 ff.

³³Ibid., Part 2, pp. 353—82.

³⁴Ibid., Part 2, pp. 233—47.

³⁵Ibid., Part 2, pp. 270—78.

³⁶Memorandum, Director John S. Gottschalk, BSFW, to Legislative Counsel, Mar. 5, 1965, in Assateague Island National Seashore Legislative History, Interior Law Library.

³⁷Interview with George B. Hartzog, Jr., June 2, 1982; Senate Hearing,1965, Part 1, pp. 18, 32, 35—37, 125.

³⁸Ibid., Part 1, pp. 135, 162.

³⁹Interview with Gottschalk, June 2, 1982; Senate Hearings, 1965, Part 1, pp. 89, 99.

⁴⁰Senate Report 331; letter, Acting Director Jackson E. Price, NPS,Sen. Alan Bible, Apr. 21, 1965, WASO-170.

⁴¹Senate Report 331.

⁴²111 Congressional Record 14011; letter, Udall to Aspinall, June 26,1965, WASO-170.

⁴³House Hearings, 1965, p. 57.

⁴⁴Ibid., p. 34; memorandum, Fritz Kessinger to Chief, Division of Legislation and Regulations, NPS, Aug. 18, 1965, WASO—170.

⁴⁵House Report 893, 89th Congress, 1st Session, Aug. 31, 1965, p. 7.

⁴⁶Ibid., p. 9.

⁴⁷Ibid., p. 6.

⁴⁸111 Congressional Record 22997, 23893; letter, Udall to Director Charles L. Schultze, Bureau of the Budget, Sept. 20, 1965, WASO-170; Alan R. Dessoff, "President Signs Assateague Seashore Bill," Washington Post, Sept. 22, 1965, ASIS clipping file.

⁴⁹Gottschalk interview.

⁵⁰Udall and Hartzog interviews.