Assateague Island Administrative History

¹Interview with Udall, June 2, 1982.

²Memorandum, Udall to Hartzog, Aug. 31, 1966, file D18, Assateague Island National Seashore headquarters (hereinafter cited as ASIS); interview with Gottschalk, June 2, 1982; interview with Hartzog, June 2, 1982.

³Letter, Robertson to Udall, May 31, 1966, file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Director John S. Gottschalk, BSFW, to Secretary of the Interior, June 17, 1966, signed as approved by Udall June 28, 1966, file D18, ASIS.

⁴Memorandum, Gottschalk to Director, NPS, and Director, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Oct. 6, 1965, file A4415, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Director, NPS, Mar. 29, 1966, file A4415, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, NPS, Aug. 2, 1966, file D18, ASIS. (Administrative titles hereinafter may be presumed to identify NPS officials unless otherwise noted.)

⁵Cain to Director, BSFW, and Director, NPS, file A4415, ASIS.

⁶Memorandum, Hartzog to Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Dec. 26, 1966, file D18, ASIS.

⁷Memorandum, Roberts to Chief, Office of Resource Planning, Washington Service Center, Nov. 8, 1966, file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Edward S. Peetz, Chief, Office of Resource Planning, WSC, to Chief, Division of New Area Studies and Master Planning, Dec. 30, 1966, file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Raymond L. Freeman, Chief, New Area Studies and Master Planning, to Chief, Office of Resource Planning, WSC, Jan. 10, 1967, file D18, ASIS.

⁸Cain to Director, BSFW, and Director, NPS, file A4415, ASIS.

⁹Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, June 1, 1967, file D18, ASIS.

¹⁰Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, May 12,1969, file D18, ASIS.

¹¹Letter, Roberts to Anthony Higgins, Dec. 17, 1968, file D18, ASIS.

¹²Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, National Capital Region, Dec. 7, 1967, file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Acting Director Howard W. Baker, NPS, and Director John S. Gottschalk, BSFW, to Secretary of the Interior, Jan. 18, 1968 (Udall's signature Jan. 24), file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Jan. 30, 1970, file D18, ASIS.

¹³Letter, Roberts to Smith, Mar. 13, 1969, file A22, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Superintendent, Padre Island National Seashore, Feb. 12, 1969, file A22, ASIS.

¹⁴"Master Plan for Assateague Island National Seashore," March 1969, file A22, ASIS.

¹⁵Letter, Tydings to Hickel, May 9, 1969, in NPS Washington Office file L1425, Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Md. (hereinafter cited as WASO file_____, WNRC).

¹⁶Letter, Associate Director Edward A. Hummel to Tydings, June 17, 1969, WASO file L1425, WNRC; memorandum, Acting Director Harthon L. Bill to Secretary of the Interior, July 9, 1969, in NPS Office of Legislation, Washington, D.C. (hereinafter cited as WASO—170).

¹⁷Memorandum, Acting Assistant Director Stanley C. Joseph to Director, June 24, 1969, file A4415, ASIS; memorandum, Acting Director Harthon L. Bill to Secretary of the Interior, July 9, 1969, WASO-170.

¹⁸Letter, W. Darlington Denit, DAC, to Roberts, June 30, 1969, file D18, ASIS; Mary Corddry, "Assateague Plan Backed," The Sun, Baltimore, July 4, 1969, clipping in file D18, ASIS; 115 Congressional Record 26322.

¹⁹National Park Service, "Statement for Management and Planning, Assateague Island National Seashore," 1972, p. 2; Thomas F. Norris, Jr., in minutes, Nov. 5, 1971, meeting of Joint Executive—Legislative Committee on Assateague Island, in "Supplement, Report to the Governor by the Joint Executive—Legislative Committee on Assateague Island," March 1972, copy in Interpretation and Visitor Services Division file, NPS Mid—Atlantic Regional Office, Philadelphia, Pa.; Paul J. Godfrey, "A Report on the Status of National Seashores on the U.S. East Coast as of Summer 1970," prepared for the Chief Scientist, National Park Service, copy in Resource Preservation Division files, NPS Mid—Atlantic Regional Office.

²⁰Letter, Donald J. Leonard to Assistant Secretary Leslie A. Glasgow, Jan. 27, 1970, file D30, ASIS; interview with Thomas F. Norris, Jr., May 24, 1982.

²¹"Assateague Land—Buying Funds Urged," The Sun, Baltimore, Nov. 13, 1971, ASIS clipping file; "Draft Statement of Environmental Impact for Proposed Development of Toms Cove Area," September 1971, copy in file D18, ASIS

²²Judith C. Johnson testimony in U.S., Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Assateague Island National Seashore Amendments...Hearing on S. 82 et al., 94th Congress, 1st Session, May 12, 1975 (hereinafter cited as Senate Hearing, 1975).

²³Letter, Mandel to Secretary of State Planning Vladimir A. Wahbe, Aug. 12, 1971, in "Supplement, Report to the Governor by the Joint Executive—Legislative Committee."

²⁴"Report to the Governor by the Joint Executive—Legislative Committee on Assateague Island," March 1972, copy in file D18, ASIS.

²⁵House Joint Resolution 15, May 24, 1973, reproduced in National Park Service, "Preferred Planning Alternative for Assateague Island Comprehensive Plan," August 1979, copy in NPS Office of Park Planning and Environmental Quality, Washington, D.C.

²⁶Letter, Coulter to Ray Redden, President, Worcester County Commissioners, Jan. 28, 1974, WASO-170.

²⁷S. 3302 (Mathias—Beall), H.R. 13975 (Downing), H.R. 14005 (Bauman), 93rd Congress, 2d Session.

²⁸S. 82, Jan. 15, 1975, H.R. 241, Jan. 14, 1975, H.R. 7407, May 22, 1975, 94th Congress, 1st Session.

²⁹Letter, Reed to Sen. Henry M. Jackson, WASO-170.

³⁰Senate Hearing, 1975, pp. 28—29.

³¹Ibid., pp. 113, 118—19, 134—35.

³²Senate Report 94—163, 94th Congress, 1st Session, June 2, 1975; 121 Congressional Record 16939.

³³Memorandum, Lambe to files, Sept. 10, 1975, WASO-170.

³⁴Unpublished transcript of Parks and Recreation Subcommittee hearing, Feb. 20, 1976, WASO—170.

³⁵House Report 94—1162, 94th Congress, 2d Session, May 18, 1976; Congressional Record, June 8, 1976, pp. H5427—28.

³⁶Memorandum, Acting Assistant Director Eldon G. Reyer to Legislative Counsel, July 15, 1976, WASO-170; letter, Assistant Secretary John Kyl to Sen. Henry M. Jackson, July 23, 1976, WASO-170; Senate Report 94—1158, 94th Congress, 2d Session, Aug. 20, 1976; Congressional Record, Aug. 26, 1976, p. S14653.

³⁷Congressional Record, Sept. 29, 1976, p. H11673, Oct. 1, 1976, pp. H12395, S17733—36; memorandum (re Johnson role), Thomas F. Norris, Jr., to Superintendent, Everglades National Park, Jan. 19, 1978, file D1817, ASIS; Norris interview.