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PUBLIC LAW 88-161-OCT. 29, 1963

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Public Law 88-160 JOINT RESOLUTION

October 28, 1963

Relating to the validity of certain rice acreage allotments for 1962 and prior crop years.

[H. J. Res. 192]

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ATnerioa in Congress assembled, That in a State in which farm rice acreage allotments are determined on the basis of past production of rice by the producer on the farm, any producer rice acreage allotment found by the ASC county committee or the ASC State committee to have been properly apportioned from the State rice acreage allotment and the acreage allotment for any farm to which such producer allotment has been allocated and approved by the county committee in good faith for any crop year 1956 to 1962, both inclusive, shall be deemed to have been validly established and shall remain in effect, and the farm marketing quota and farm marketing excess, if any, shall be determined on the basis of such valid farm rice acreage allotment. This resolution shall not apply to any producer rice allotment or any planted rice acreage that has been obtained by duplication, forgery, bribery, intimidation, or practices that would result in the total allotted acreage in the State exceeding the State acreage allotment, less any unallocated reserve acreage. Approved October 28, 1963.

Agriculture. Rice acreage allotments. Validity.

Public Law 88-161 AN ACT To provide for the withdrawal and reservation for the Department of the Navy of certain public lands of the United States at Mojave B Aerial Gunnery Range, San Bernardino County, California, for defense purposes.

October 29, 1963

[H. R. 45 88]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemMed, That (a) subject Mojave B Aeriai to valid existing rights the public lands, and the minerals therein, ^'am^"^^ Range, within the area described in section 2 of this Act are hereby with- Public lands, drawn from all appropriations and other forms of disposition under withdrawal and the public land laws including the mining and mineral leasing laws '•^^^'•^^*^°"and disposals of materials under the Act of July 31, 1947, as amended (61 Stat. 681; 30 U.S.C. 601-604), except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, and reserved for use of the Department of the Navy for a period of ten years with an option to renew the withdrawal and reservation for a period of five years upon notice to the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to the condition that part or all of the reservation may be terminated at any time by the Secretary of the Navy upon notice to the Secretary of the Interior. (b) The Secretary of the Interior may, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Navy, authorize use or disposition of any of the land? or resources withdrawn and reserved by subsection (a) of this section. (c) Upon request of the Secretary of the Interior at the time of termination of the reservation effected by this Act as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the Department of the Navy shall make safe for nonmilitary uses the land withdrawn and reserved or such portions thereof as may be specified by the Secretary of the Interior, by neutralizing unexploded ammunition, bombs, artillery projectiles, or other explosive objects and chemical agents. There-

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