Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76.djvu/700

 652

Administration.

16 USC 1.

Roadways.

Gunnery or bombing ranges.

Appropriation.

PUBLIC LAW 8T.713-SEPT. 28, 1%2

[76 STAT.

additional rights of occupation or use of the surface for the purposes aforesaid upon the terms and under such regulations as may be prescribed by him. SEC. 5. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the property acquired by the Secretary under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, sub,ject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supplemented, and in accordance with other laws of general application relating to the areas administered and supervised by the Secretary through the National Park Service; except that authority otherwise available to the Secretary for the conservation and management of natural resources may be utilized to the extent he finds such authority will further the purposes of this Act. SEC. 6. The Secretary may provide for roadways from the north and south boundaries or such public recreation area to the access highways from the mainland to Padre Island. SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior shall enter into such administrative agreements with the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary to assure that the Secretary of the Interior will not exercise any authority granted by this Act so as to interfere with the use by the Department of the Navy of any aerial gunnery or bombing range located in the vicinity of Padre Island. SEC. 8. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act; except that no more than $5,000,000 shall be appropriated for the acquisition of land and waters and improvements thereon, and interests therein, and incidental costs relating thereto, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Approved September 28, 1962, 12:40 p.m.

Public Law 87-713 September 28, 1962

[H.R. 10540]

Petrified wood. Sale.

Definition.

AN

ACT

rj<Q exclude deposits of petrified wood from appropriation under the United States mining laws.

Be ft enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of the Act of July 23, 1955 (69 Stat. 368; 30 U.S.C. 611), is amended to read: "No deposit of common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, or cinders and no deposit of petrified wood shall be deemed a valuable mineral deposit within the meaning of the mining laws of the United States so as to give effective validity to any mining claim hereafter located under such mining laws: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall affect the validity of any mining location based upon discovery of some other mineral occurring in or in association with such a deposit. 'Common varieties' as used in this Act does not include deposits of such materials which are valuable because the deposit lias some property giving it distinct and special value and does not include so-called 'block pumice' which occurs in nature in pieces having one dimension of two inches or more. 'Petrified wood* as used in this Act means agatized, opalized, petrified, or silicified wood, or any material formed by the replacement of wood by silica or other matter." SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall provide by regulation that limited quantities of petrified wood may be removed without charge from those public lands which he shall specify. Approved September 28, 1962.

�