In late summer, DOE notified the City of Oak Ridge its intention to declare Clark Center Park excess property. It is now expected that DOE will declare the 80-acre property on the shore of Melton Hill Lake to be excess to the agency's needs, then allow the National Park Service (NPS) to offer it to the city through the Federal Lands to Parks Program. The future use of the property would be limited to recreation, and NPS would enforce the use restriction. Two sticking points are 1) the funding to support operation of the park, and 2) DOE’s requirement that the park property be transferred with deed restrictions that limit use to recreational use.