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 100 STAT. 3482

Minerals and mining.

PUBLIC LAW 99-614—NOV. 6, 1986

thence south 89 degrees 46 minutes 45 seconds east along such southerly line 119.49 feet to the true point of beginning, containing an area of 1.293 acres, more or less. SEC. 3. (a) Nothing in this Act shall— (1) diminish the right-of-way referred to in the first section of this Act to a width of less than 50 feet on each side of the center of the main track or tracks established and maintained by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company on the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) validate or confirm any right or title to, or interest in, the land referred to in the first section of this Act arising out of adverse possession, prescription, or abandonment, and not confirmed by conveyance by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company before the date of enactment of this Act. Qo) There is reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other minerals in the land referred to in the first section of this Act, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove such oil, coal, or other minerals under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. FINDINGS

SEC. 4. The Congress finds that— (1) the Southern Pacific Transportation Company is the successor grantee of the real property described in section 6; (2) pursuant to a petition of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, the Interstate Commerce Commission has exempted the abandonment of the real property described in section 6 from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 10903 (relating to abandonment and discontinuance of railroad lines and rail transportation); (3) the Southern Pacific Transportation Company has abandoned all right, title, and interest in and to the real property described in section 6. DECLARATION OF ABANDONMENT

SEC. 5. For the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the disposition of abandoned portions of rights of way granted to railroad companies", approved March 8, 1922 (43 U.S.C. 912), the Congress hereby declares that the Southern Pacific Transportation Company has abandoned the real property described in section 6. LAND DESCRIPTION

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SEC. 6. The real property referred to in sections 4 and 5 is certain real property situated in the City of Coalinga, California, which forms part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company by the Act entitled "An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast", approved July 27, 1866 (16 Stat. 292), and more particularly described as that portion of the right-of-way extending from the section line of sections 33 and 34 of township 20 south, range 15 east.

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