Section 1. The Department of Property and Supplies, with concurrence of the Department of Environmental Resources, acting on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for a respective consideration which shall be the actual market value of each of the respective tracts of property hereinafter described as determined by an independent appraisal service chosen by the Secretary of Property and Supplies, is hereby authorized to convey in fee to Scott Paper Company, a corporation with offices in the City of Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, its successors and assigns, Tract #1 and/or Tract #2 and/or Tract #3 within the bed of the Delaware River hereinafter described by one or more conveyances conveying one or more of the three tracts hereinafter described as may be requested by said Scott Paper Company, the said three tracts lying between the Bulkhead Line and the Pierhead Line as approved by the War Department on September 10, 1940, adjacent to lands presently owned by the corporation, to the north, the said three tracts being separately bounded and described as follows:
Tract No. 1
PULP DOCK AND WASTE TREATMENT DOCK
All that certain parcel of land with any improvements thereon, situated in the City of Chester, County of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, being described according to a plan thereof dated November 1, 1973, prepared by S. E. Price, P. E., Scott Paper Company, Chester, Pennsylvania, as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the westerly side of former Market Street (75 feet wide - vacated) now lands of Scott Paper Company, with the U.S.E.D. Bulkhead Line of the Delaware River as approved by the War Department, September 10, 1940. Thence from said point of beginning along the Bulkhead Line north 55 degrees 50 minutes 36.2 seconds east, the distance of 760.38 feet to a drill hole, said drill hole located on the Bulkhead Line 0.79 feet easterly from the east wall of the Scott Paper Company Primary Waste Treatment Plant; thence south 31 degrees 38 minutes 09 seconds east, the distance of 122.94 feet to a point; thence south 58 degrees 26 minutes 46.2 seconds west, the distance of 760.55 feet along the riverside face of the Waste Treatment Plant and the Pulp Dock to the southwesterly corner of the Pulp Dock; thence north 32 degrees 21 minutes 38.6 seconds west, the distance of 88.32 feet to a point in the Bulkhead Line; thence north 55 degrees 50 minutes 36.2 seconds east the distance of 2.02 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Containing 1.8458 acres of land.
Tract No. 2
FORMER SUN SHIP LAUNCHING AREA
All that certain parcel of river bottom land between the low water line and the U.S.E.D. Pierhead Line of the Delaware River as approved by the War Department, September 10, 1940, situated in the City of Chester, County of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, being described according to a plan thereof dated November 1, 1973, prepared by S. E. Price, P. E., Scott Paper Company, Chester, Pennsylvania, as follows:
Beginning at a point on the Pierhead Line, which said point is measured the two following courses and distances from the intersection of the westerly side of former Market Street (75 feet wide - vacated) with the U.S.E.D. Bulkhead Line: (one) north 55 degrees 50 minutes 36.2 seconds east along the Bulkhead Line, the distance of 1654.34 feet to an existing monument in line of lands of Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company; and (two) south 38 degrees 19 minutes 28.8 seconds east along the line of lands of Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, the distance of 253.52 feet to the point of beginning on the Pierhead Line; thence from said point of beginning along the Pierhead Line south 51 degrees 36 minutes 32.4 seconds west, the distance of 186.01 feet to point "H" of Harbor Lines; thence still along same south 53 degrees 36 minutes 37.3 seconds west, the distance of 740.46 feet to a point; thence north 31 degrees 38 minutes 09 seconds west, the distance of approximately 248 feet to the Low Water Line surveyed October 25, 1963; thence easterly along the Low Water Line to a point on the line of lands of Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company; thence south 38 degrees 19 minutes 28.8 seconds east, the distance of approximately 14 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Containing 2.1847 acres of land under water, more or less.
Tract No. 3
LANDS UNDER WATER TO PIERHEAD LINE
All that certain parcel of river bottom land lying between the U.S.E.D. Bulkhead and Pierhead Lines of the Delaware River as approved by the War Department, September 10, 1940, situated in the City of Chester, County of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, being described according to a plan thereof dated November 1, 1973, prepared by S. E. Price, P. E., Scott Paper Company, Chester, Pennsylvania, as follows:
Beginning at a point on the Bulkhead Line, which said point is measured south 55 degrees 50 minutes 36.2 seconds west, the distance of 2.02 feet from the intersection of the westerly side of former Market Street (75 feet wide - vacated) with the Bulkhead Line; thence from said point of beginning along the west face of the Pulp Dock south 32 degrees 21 minutes 38.6 seconds east, the distance of 88.32 feet to a point; thence north 58 degrees 26 minutes 46.2 seconds east along the southerly face of the Pulp Dock the distance of 760.55 feet to a point; thence south 31 degrees 38 minutes 09 seconds east, the distance of 172.79 feet to a point in the Pierhead Line; thence south 53 degrees 36 minutes 37.3 seconds west, the distance of 1421.87 feet to a point of intersection of the said Pierhead Line with the extension of the westerly boundary of the lands of Scott Paper Company abutting Edgmont Avenue; thence from said point north 23 degrees 34 minutes 14.6 seconds west, the distance of 356.91 feet to a point in the Bulkhead line; thence north 55 degrees 50 minutes 36.2 seconds east, the distance of 605.74 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Containing 8.4740 acres of land under water.
Compiler's Note: The Department of Environmental Resources,
referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 18 of
1995. Its functions were transferred to the Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources and the Department of
Environmental Protection.
Compiler's Note: The Department of Property and Supplies,
referred to in this section, is now the Department of
General Services.