Mr. TAYLOR. And $1011⁄2 million will be needed to complete the land acquisition.

Mr. REED. Yes, sir.

Mr. TAYLOR. I think that is a very favorable aspect of this program. The Government is getting a real bargain when two-thirds of the land is being donated.

Mr. REED. Yes, sir. As you are the manager of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, you know this is a very significant donation. Mr. TAYLOR. It certainly is.

Now, give us some information with regard to the development planned.

Mr. REED. I would be delighted to turn that over to Mr. Hartzog and his staff, sir, if I may.

Mr. HARTZOG. Mr. Chairman, this is the vicinity map of Cumberland Island showing its location, south of Brunswick and south of Jekyll Island, a State park which you saw during your field trip on Cumberland Island.

This is the boundary of the legislative proposal involving some 300 acres of land acquisition on the mainland and including the Little Cumberland Island for which, as the Secretary explained to you, special provision is made in the legislation.

This is the general development plan for Cumberland Island. There would be an island contact station at Dungeness, with bike and equipment rental. This would be a point along the jitney service, a picnic area here, and here we would start interpretation of those ruins which you saw there which we would hope would be stabilized. There would be interpretation at South Point, Dungeness Beach swimming and associated day use facilities, Stafford location, historical interpretation, group activity center, Stafford Beach swimming and associated activities.

The Whitney Sweetwater Lake is the outstanding natural area on the island and here we would propose an environmental study area, interpretation, and nature trail.

High Point Beach would be swimming, and the area to the north, Little Cumberland Island, is strictly for ecological and environmental protection and interpretation.

There would be a Brickhill Bluff contact station, jitney service, and bike rental; at Table Point again a natural area for nature interpretation, and then, of course, on the mainland would be a visitor information, orientation, interpretation, administrative headquarters facility, visitor parking, and the operation of the shuttle service to the island. We would not propose, Mr. Chairman, to have conventional commercial facilities of the overnight variety which could be developed outside of the area. As you know, the access to this area is through a large ownership of Brunswick Pulp & Paper and we hope those kinds of facilities could be developed there.

Mr. TAYLOR. What do you propose with regard to roads on the

island?

Mr. HARTZOG. We don't propose any road in the context we normally have in these areas. What we are talking about are jitney trails or shuttle service comparable to what we have now here in the district or on that 7-mile trail we just started this year in the Everglades which is a kind of motorized unit pulling cars behind it.

Mr. TAYLOR. The roads there now are mostly surrounded by large trees that have been growing over a period of many, many decades. Mr. HARTZOG. Right.

Mr. TAYLOR. And they are now gravel or sand. Would they be in the main left as they are or would they be paved?

Mr. HARTZOG. No. They certainly would be left as they are and the additional ones needed would be developed along that line. We would not use the straight line cut-down-the-tree approach to it.

Mr. TAYLOR. As I look at this area I thought if we had ever approached a project that needed to be left alone and in the main left in its natural state, this is it.

I know you recommend $27,840,000 for development.

Mr. HARTZOG. That is primarily on the mainland, Mr. Chairman, in the headquarters facility, and this estimate involves a cost of purchasing

Mr. TAYLOR. Give us

breakdown on the main items ofMr. HARTZOG (continuing). A shuttleboat.

Mr. TAYLOR (continuing). Main items of cost. A breakdown on the main cost items of development.

Mr. HARTZOG. The biking-hiking trails, nature trails, horse trails, 58 miles of hiking and biking trails, 33 miles of unpaved hiking trails, 16 miles of nature trails, 52 miles of horse trails, and the jitney route would be 24 miles, and the estimated cost for that is $6 million—$71⁄2 million out of this total.

Mr. TAYLOR. Proceed. Other items.

Mr. HARTZOG. On the mainland, the entrance road, a docking ferry, terminal building at $400,000, a secondary backup facility of $300,000, employees residences, $90,000, seasonal residences, $120,000, these in connection with the administration of the area. On Cumberland Island, refurbishing of Plum Orchard, $500,000, beach developments, bath houses, lunch areas, elevated walks, $1,300,000, and lifeguard stations.

The beach development at High Point Beach, would cost $1.3 million, and at Dungeness $1.3 million, utilities $2 million, communications, $200,000.

Mr. TAYLOR. How much are the utilities?

Mr. HARTZOG. Two million dollars.

Mr. TAYLOR. What utilities would that be?

Mr. HARTZOG. Sewage, water. You see, the headquarters site is now undeveloped. That is all there is to it. You have got to bring in sewage, to develop water and sewage facilities there.

Mr. SKUBITZ. Will the gentleman yield? I tried to add those figures as you went along and they seem to total far from $27 million.

Mr. HARTZOG. I have the whole program. I tried to consolidate them. I will be happy to give you the whole thing.

Mr. TAYLOR. In the absence of obiection a complete breakdown of development items and costs will be placed in the record. (The document referred to above follows:)

90,000

90,000

Beach development at Dungeness.

100,000

950,000

200,000

Plum Orchard..

50,000

1,200,000

iel Greene House.

20,000

180,000

50,000

250,000

Boat ranp (2), Island.

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