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PUBLIC LAW 929 - AUG. 2, 1956

Public Law 929 August 2, 1956 [H. R. 5519]

El P a s o, T e x a s. Exchange o f lands.

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AN ACT To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain tracts of land in El Paso County, Texas, to the city of El Paso, Texas, in exchange for certain lands to be conveyed by the city of El Paso, Texas, to the United States Government.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized, upon such terms and conditions as he may determine to be in the public interest, to convey to the city of E l Paso, a municipal corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas, the lands and improvements comprising those portions of Fort Bliss Military Reservation and the Biggs Air Force Base situate in El Paso County, Texas, as described in section 2 of this Act, in exchange for that land described in section 3 of this Act and owned by the city of E l Paso, Texas, situate in E l Paso County. Among its terms and conditions, the deed to the city shall be conditioned upon the agreement by the city of El Paso in (1) the construction by the Department of the Air Force of an interconnecting taxiway between Biggs Air Force Base and E l Paso International Airport; and (2) the use of E l Paso International Airport by military aircraft. The conveyance to the city shall also provide for a reverter to the United States, at the election of the Secretary of the Army, for breach of any of the terms and conditions by the city of E l Paso, its successors and assigns. SEC. 2. The lands to be conveyed by the. United States to the city of El Paso, Texas, consist of portions of Fort Bliss Military Reservation and Biggs Air Force Base with an aggregate of 2,255.453 acres of land and improvements thereon, in several tracts as follows: (a) East-West runway extension area, a tract of land being and lying in block 80, township 2, parts of sections 32, 33, 34, 35, 41, 40, 39, and 38 of the Texas and Pacific Railway survey. El Paso County, Texas, and part of the Juan and Jacinto Ascarate grant, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of the city of E l Paso International Airport, formerly known as E d Anderson Field, same corner being in the northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62 known as the Carlsbad Road and said corner being north 81 degrees 10 minutes east a distance of 6,300.6 feet, plus or minus, from a monument marking the easterly right-of-way line of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Fort Bliss spur as established by the Office of Quartermaster General Construction Division in November 1937, and the northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62; Thence bearing north 81 degrees 10 minutes east and parallel to the northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62 at 10,936.0 feet, plus or minus, cross the approximate centerline of the E l Paso Natural Gas parallel pipelines and continuing on a bearing or north 81 degrees 10 minutes east for a total distance of 13,728.3 feet, plus or minus, to the proposed southeast corner of this tract.; Thence bearing north 1 degree 1 minute 50 seconds west for a distance of 5,183.76 feet, plus or minus, to the proposed northeast comer of this tract; Thence bearing south 82 degrees 20 minutes 55 seconds west at 6,670.0 feet, plus or minus, cross the approximate centerline of the E l Paso Natural Gas parallel pipelines and continuing on a bearing of south 82 degrees 20 minutes 55 seconds west for a total distance of 13,692.56 feet, plus or minus, to a point in the present easterly boundary of the city of E l Paso International Airport, same point being

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