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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 9 3 - J U L Y 17, 1959

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SEC. 3. Lots 1, 5, and 6 of section 1 in township 14 north, range 2 east of the Boise meridian within the boundaries of the Boise National Forest, in Valley County, State of Idaho, and all of those lands described in sections 1 and 2 hereof owned by the United States are hereby, and any of said lands hereafter acquired by the United States in connection with the Cascade Keservoir reclamation project shall be, added to and made parts of the respective national forests and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to lands acquired pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), '^ use 551.562. as amended. SEC. 4. (a) I t is hereby declared that the sole purpose of sections Restriction. 1, 2, and 3 of this Act is to subject the lands referred to therein to laws and regulations applicable to national forests, and nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the United States to acquire any additional lands or any interest therein, nor to diminish or in anywise affect any valid rights in or to, or in connection with, any such lands which may be in existence on the date of enactment of this Act. (b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall make available, from the voh-^pro^lct.^^^*'' lands referred to in the foregoing sections of this Act, to the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, such lands as the Secretary of the Interior finds are needed in connection with the Cascade Reservoir reclamation project, (c) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into such Agreements. agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to the relative responsibilities of the aforesaid Secretaries for the administration of, as well as accountings for and use of revenues arising from, lands made available to the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior pursuant to subsection (b) as the Secretary of the Interior finds to be proper in carrying out the purpose of this Act. SEC. 5. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare lists of lands Excess unds. acquired for the Cascade Reservoir reclamation project which are not described in sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act and which, in his judgment, are excess to the needs of the project. The lands so listed shall be divided into two classes: those which are now or are likely, within ten years, to become chiefly valuable as home, cabin, recreation, or business sites (hereinafter referred to as class A lands), and all other lands (hereinafter referred to as class B lands). Lands of either class shall hereafter be sold or exchanged only in accordance with the provisions of this section. (b) The Secretary may exchange lands of either class for nonFederal lands of not less than approximately equal value situated within three hundred feet of the shoreline established by the normal water surface elevation of four thousand eight hundred and twentyeight feet of the Cascade Reservoir and outside the exterior boundaries of the Boise and Payette National Forests as extended by this Act. (c) The Secretary may sell by competitive bidding, at not less ^^^^ °' lands. than their appraised fair market value, lands of either class. Class A lands shall be sold in tracts of not more than five acres, with such reservations or dedications to public use of rights-of-way for roads, streets and public utilities and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem appropriate. The former owner of lands so offered for sale' shall have a personal nontransferable preference right to reacquire, within thirty days after the highest bid is declared, any class B lands which were formerly owned by him and one tract of class A lands which were formerly owned by him at, in either case, a price equal to the highest bid received for such lands. But in no case shall Limitation. the former owner be required to pay more than three times the ap32716 O-60—17

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