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PRIVATE LAW 854-AUG. 27, 1954

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roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, or communication; for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character, together with the right to take for its own use, from any public lands, within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like character necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and maintenance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and communication. Reservation to That there is hereby excepted and reserved unto the United States, U. S, from said grant, minerals, other than sand, stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character: Provided, however, That such minerals so excepted and reserved shall be prospected for, mined, and removed only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Effectivity. This grant shall be effective upon (1) the filing by said grantee at any time after the passage of this Act, with the manager of the United States local land office in the district where said lands are situated, of a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said lands and of said rights-of-way for the purposes hereinabove set forth; (2) the approval of such map or maps by the Secretary of the Interior with such reservations or modifications as he may deem appropriate; (3) the payment of a price representing the fair market value for said rights-of-way and other lands, and also for stone, earth, sand, gravel and other materials of like character, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior through appraisal, exclusive of any increased value resulting from the development or improvement of the lands by the grantee or its predecessors, or a reasonable rental, as the case may be: Provided, That said lands for rights-ofway shall be along such location and of such width, not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the purposes of this Act. SEC. 2. Whenever the lands or the rights-of-way are the same as are designated on any map heretofore filed by said Basic Management, Incorporated, or by any of its predecessors in interest, including Defense Plant Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the State of Nevada, or the Colorado River Commission of Nevada, in connection with any application for a right-of-way under any statute of the United States, which application is still pending, or has been granted, and is unrevoked and has been transferred to and is now owned by said Basic Management, Incorporated, then, upon the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of any such later map with such modifications and under such conditions as he may deem appropriate, the rights hereby granted, shall as to such lands or rights-ofway become effective as of the date of the filing of said earlier map or maps with the manager or register of the United States local land office. SEC. 3. Said grants are to be made subject to rights-of-way, easements, and permits heretofore granted or allowed to any person or corporation in accordance with any Act or Acts of Congress and subject to the rights of all claimants or persons who shall have filed or made valid claims, locations, or entries on or to said lands, or any part thereof prior to the effective date of any conflicting grant hereunder, unless rior to such effective date proper relinquishments or quitclaims have een procured and caused to be filed in the proper land office. Reversion to U.S. JSEC. 4. That, whencvcr the land granted herein shall cease to be used for the purposes for which it is granted, the estate of the grantee or of its assigns shall terminate and revest in the United States. Approved August 27, 1954.

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