Pennsylvania Act 1977-52 — PROJECT 70 LAND - CONVEYING RIGHT-OF-WAY IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY

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PROJECT 70 LAND - CONVEYING RIGHT-OF-WAY IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY
                  Act of Aug. 12, 1977, P.L. 187, No. 52              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the City of Monessen, Westmoreland County, to convey
        a right-of-way across certain Project 70 lands in Rostraver
        Township, Westmoreland County, to the Duquesne Slag Products
        Company in exchange for extinguishment of an existing right-
        of-way.

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

        Section 1.  (a)  Pursuant to the requirements of section
     20(b), act of June 22, 1964 (Sp.Sess., P.L.131, No.8), known as
     the "Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act," the General
     Assembly hereby authorizes the City of Monessen, Westmoreland
     County, to convey the hereinafter described right-of-way through
     Project 70 land known as Columbus Park to the Duquesne Slag
     Products Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation, in exchange for
     extinguishment of Duquesne Slag Products Company's existing
     right-of-way through said park.
        (b)  The right-of-way conveyed by the City of Monessen shall
     be free of restrictions on use and alienation prescribed by
     section 20 of the Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act
     upon:
            (1)  completion of the exchange as hereinafter provided
        in this act; and
            (2)  execution and filing of a document of conveyance and
        extinguishment, citing the exchange and release of said land
        from the restrictions on use and alienation prescribed by
        section 20(b) of said act.
        (c)  The document of conveyance and extinguishment shall be
     prepared by the City of Monessen and filed in the Office of the
     Recorder of Deeds of Westmoreland County. Compliance with this
     section constitutes the express approval of the General Assembly
     of release of the restrictions on use and alienation of the
     right-of-way conveyed by the City of Monessen hereunder required
     by section 20(b) of the Project 70 Land Acquisition and
     Borrowing Act.
        Section 2.  The right-of-way through Project 70 lands to be
     conveyed by the City of Monessen, Westmoreland County to the
     Duquesne Slag Products Company is more particularly described as
     follows:
        Starting at a point, said point being the centerline
     intersections of Monessen Boulevard and Columbus Drive; thence
     along the centerline of Monessen Boulevard south 57 degrees 04
     minutes 30 seconds west, a distance of 249.90 feet to the place
     of beginning; thence south 32 degrees 55 minutes 30 seconds
     east, a distance of 20.00 feet to a point; thence north 57
     degrees 04 minutes 30 seconds east, a distance of 19.90 feet to
     a point; thence south 32 degrees 55 minutes 30 seconds east, a
     distance of 145.00 feet to a point; thence south 22 degrees 10
     minutes 00 seconds east, a distance of 119.03 feet to a point of
     curve; thence in a southerly direction by a curve to the left
     having a radius of 300.00 feet, an arc distance of 231.31 feet,
     the chord of which bears south 44 degrees 15 minutes 20 seconds
     east, 225.63 feet to a point of tangent; thence south 66 degrees
     20 minutes 40 seconds east, a distance of 450.12 feet to a point
     of curve; thence in a southerly direction by a curve to the
     right having a radius of 100.00 feet, an arc distance of 125.13
     feet, the chord of which bears south 30 degrees 29 minutes 50
     seconds east, 117.13 feet to a point of tangent; thence south 05
     degrees 21 minutes 00 seconds west, a distance of 395.83 feet to
     a point; thence north 73 degrees 12 minutes 00 seconds west, a
     distance of 51.02 feet to a point on line of lands now or
     formerly of Duquesne Slag Products Company; thence along lands
     now or formerly of City of Monessen, north 05 degrees 21 minutes
     00 seconds east, a distance of 385.71 feet to a point of curve;
     thence in a northerly direction through said lands by a curve to
     the left having a radius of 50.00 feet, an arc distance of 62.57
     feet, the chord of which bears north 30 degrees 29 minutes 50
     seconds west, 58.56 feet to a point of tangent; thence through
     said lands, north 66 degrees 20 minutes 40 seconds west, a
     distance of 450.12 feet to a point of curve; thence in a
     westerly direction through said lands by a curve to the right
     having a radius of 350.00 feet, an arc distance of 269.87 feet,
     the chord of which bears north 44 degrees 15 minutes 20 seconds
     west, 263.23 feet to a point of tangent; thence through said
     lands north 22 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds west, a distance of
     114.32 feet to a point; thence through said lands north 32
     degrees 55 minutes 30 seconds west, a distance of 190.29 feet to
     a point; thence through said lands north 57 degrees 04 minutes
     30 seconds east, a distance of 30.10 feet to a point; thence
     south 32 degrees 55 minutes 30 seconds east, a distance of 30.00
     feet to the place of beginning.
        Section 3.  The conveyance hereinbefore authorized shall be
     made in exchange for the extinguishment of the right-of-way
     reserved through said Project 70 lands in a deed from Duquesne
     Slag Products Company to the City of Monessen dated May 20, 1970
     and recorded May 22, 1970 in the Westmoreland County Recorder's
     Office, in Deed Book, Volume 2041, Page 445. Such reservation
     being more particularly described in said deed as follows:
        Excepting and reserving, however, therefrom and thereout, to
     the within Grantor, Duquesne Slag Products Company, its
     successors and assigns, a perpetual right-of-way 50 feet wide,
     as and for a private road for persons, trucks and other vehicles
     and equipment, leading into and from Monessen Boulevard over and
     across the property herein conveyed into and from any other
     lands of Duquesne Slag Products Company, its successors and
     assigns, whether or not said lands are contiguous to the
     property herein conveyed, with free and uninterrupted use of
     said permanent right-of-way for ingress, egress and regress,
     said permanent right-of-way being more fully bounded and
     described as follows, to wit:
        Beginning at the northeasterly corner of said 50 foot
     permanent right-of-way as said northeasterly corner is
     established and located in the above description of the 30.8397
     acre tract herein conveyed; thence by a curve to the left in a
     southerly direction, having a radius of 50 feet, a distance of
     78.54 feet along the arc to a point; thence south 32 degrees 55
     minutes 30 seconds east a distance of 120 feet to a point;
     thence by a curve to the right, in a southerly direction, having
     a radius of 100 feet, a distance of 157.08 feet along the arc to
     a point; thence south 57 degrees 04 minutes 30 seconds west a
     distance of 511.89 feet to a point on the easterly boundary line
     of other lands of Duquesne Slag Products Company; thence along
     said line north 45 degrees 11 minutes 58 seconds west a distance
     of 51.17 feet to a point; thence north 57 degrees 04 minutes 20
     seconds east a distance of 522.62 feet to a point; thence by a
     curve to the left in a northerly direction, having a radius of
     50 feet, a distance of 78.54 feet along the arc to a point;
     thence north 32 degrees 55 minutes 30 seconds west a distance of
     120 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right in a
     northerly direction, having a radius of 100 feet, a distance of
     157.08 feet along the arc to a point, which point is the
     northwesterly corner of said permanent right-of-way as said
     northwesterly corner is established and located in the above
     description of said 30.8397 acre tract; thence south 32 degrees
     55 minutes 30 seconds east along the westerly line of a tract of
     0.0367 acres in Rostraver Township conveyed to the City of
     Monessen by Adamsburg Real Estate Company a distance of 50 feet
     to the place of beginning (said City of Monessen having
     heretofore granted to Duquesne Slag Products Company a right-of-
     way over said tract of 0.0367 acre to and from Monessen
     Boulevard).
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.