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United States Department of the Interior
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Pacific West Region
909 First Avenue, Fifth Floor
Seattle, Washington 98104-1060
IN REPLY REFER TO:
L32 (PWR-PPR)
53-00486
DATE
Ms. Kaleen Cottingham, Director
WA Recreation and Conservation Office
PO Box 40917
Olympia, WA 98504-0917
Re: 81-043 Kah Tai Park Boundary Determination
Dear Ms. Cottingham:
The National Park Service (NPS) is writing in response to staff recommendations regarding the
6(f)3 boundary at Kah Tai Park in Port Townsend. As you know, this grant either closed without
adequate boundary maps, or the maps have subsequently been lost from both our agencies’
files. NPS concurs with the RCO’s proposal that the 6(f)3 boundary include all properties owned
by the grant sponsors at the close of the grant, while maintaining a contiguous park boundary.
Furthermore, NPS accepts the following as true:
• The intent of the grant was clearly to protect the entirety of Kah Tai Park, nearly 80
acres.
• The grant was final billed on 03.29.1985.
• Two grant sponsors signed the RCO’s state/local agreement – the Port of Port Townsend
and the City of Port Townsend.
• Any interlocal agreements between the two co-sponsors for managing the property is
irrelevant to NPS, as it’s the grant contract maintained by the RCO that matters for NPS
purposes.
• A large portion of the 80 acre Kah Tai Park was owned by neither grant sponsor at the
time of grant close and cannot be legally protected by 6(f)3 of the LWCF Act until a new
grant is processed for the park.
Finally, the City’s ownership at the time of grant close included a number of noncontiguous
vacated road rights of way (ROW). Unless those properties were used as part of the sponsor’s
grant match, NPS agrees that only those ROWs that connect with land owned by one of the two
grant sponsors as of 03.29.1985 should be included in the 6(f)3 boundary.!
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In order to finalize a 6(f)3 map for this park, NPS will require three original grant amendments, a
424 and a new 6(f)3 map. If you have any questions, please contact Heather Ramsay at
206.220.4123 or heather_ramsay@nps.gov.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Linde
Leader, Partnership Programs
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