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 PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-355 (3) ASSOCIATED INTERESTS.— Any easements, rights-of-way, and other interests in property that the Secretary of the Navy determines necessary for— (A) ensuring access to the properties referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2); (B) providing utiHties for such properties; (C) ensuring the security of such properties; and (D) ensuring effective maintenance and operations on such properties. (4) REMEDIATION ACTIVITIES.— Any easements, rights-of- way, and other interests in property that the Secretary of the Navy determines necessary for protecting human health and the environment in the discharge of the Secretary's responsibiHties for environmental remediation under section 1502(c), until such time as these responsibilities are completed. SEC. 1507. MORATORIUM ON IMPROVEMENTS AT FORT BUCHANAN. (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b), no acquisition, construction, conversion, rehabilitation, extension, or improvement of any facility at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, may be initiated or continued on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) EXCEPTIONS. — The prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply to the following: (1) Actions necessary to maintain the existing facilities (including utilities) at Fort Buchanan. (2) The construction of reserve component and nonappropriated fund facilities authorized before the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) TERMINATION.—T his section shall cease to be effective upon the issuance of a proclamation described in section 1504(a) or the enactment of a law, after the date of the enactment of this Act, that authorizes any acquisition, construction, conversion, rehabilitation, extension, or improvement of any facility at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. SEC. 1508. TRANSFER AND MANAGEMENT OF CONSERVATION ZONES. (a) TRANSFER TO SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. — (1) TRANSFER REQUIRED.— Except as provided in section 1506, the Secretary of the Navy shall transfer, without reimbursement, to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior all Department of Defense real properties on the western end of the Vieques Island, consisting of a total of approximately 3,100 acres, that are designated as Conservation Zones in section IV of the 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Secretary of the Navy. (2) TIME FOR TRANSFER. —The Secretary of the Navy shall complete the transfer required by paragraph (1) not later than Mayl, 200L (b) CONVEYANCE TO CONSERVATION TRUST.— (1) CONVEYANCE REQUIRED.— Except as provided in section 1506 and subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of the Navy shall convey, without consideration, to the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust the additional Conservation Zones, consisting of a total of approximately 800 acres, identified in Alternative 1 in the Draft Environmental Assessment for the proposed transfer of Naval Ammunition Support Detachment property,

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