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PUBLIC LAW 87-752-OCT. 5, 1962

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Public Law 87-752 AN ACT To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public lands in the State of Oalifornia to the city of Needles.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior shall issue to the city of Needles, in the county of San Bernardino, State of California, upon payment by the city into the Treasury of the United States, not more than five years after the Secretary has notified the city of the purchase price which shall be an amount equal to the fair market value plus the cost of any appraisal of the lands as of the effective date of this Act as determined by the Secretary after the appraisal of the lands by contract appraisal or otherwise, a patent ov deed for the following described lands situated within the city limits of said city of Needles or adjacent thereto, in the State of California comprising a total of 340 acres more or less (all range references are to San Bernardino base and meridian) with a reservation to the United States of the coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, gas, oil shale, native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried), together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under applicable provisions of law: (a) The southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 30 in township 9 north, range 23 east, subject to Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F e Railway right-of-way, comprising 40 acres more or less (otherwise described as Government lot 2 in said section 30) whenever the Secretary of the Interior determines that there is no further Federal need for this parcel. (b) The southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 30 in township 9 north, range 23 east, subject to Atchison, Tokepa, and Santa Fe Railway right-of-way, comprising 40 acres more or less. (c) The north half of the south half of the southeast quarter of the southwest q[uarter, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter section 30, township 9 north, range 23 east, comprising 15 acres more or less. (d) The northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter section 31, township 9 north, range 23 east, comprising 5 acres more or less. (e) The northeast quarter of section 31 in township 9 north, range 23 east, comprising 160 acres more or less. (f) The southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32 in township 9 north, range 23 east, comprising 40 acres more or less. (g) The southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 32 in township 9 north, range 23 east, subject to United States Highway 66-95 right-of-way, comprising 40 acres more or less. SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized and directed by this Act shall be made subject to any existing valid claims against the lands described in the first section of this Act, and to any reservations necessary to protect continuing uses of said lands by the United States. SEC. 3. The lands described in the first section of this Act shall be segregated from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws

October 5, 1962 [H. R. 2952]

Needles, Calif. Land conveyance.

Existing valid claims.

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