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PUBLIC LAW 88-523-AUG. 30, 1964

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Public Law 88-523 AN ACT

August 30, 1964

To increase the participation by counties in revenues from the National Wildlife Refuge System by amending the Act of June 15, 1935, relating to such participation, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the National United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 401 of life RefugeWildthe Act of June 15, 1^35, as amended (49 Stat. 378, 383; 16 U.S.C. system! 715s), relating to the participation by the counties in revenues from Revenues. wildlife refuges, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 401. (a) Beginning with the next full fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, all revenues received by the Secretary of the Interior from the sale or other disposition of animals, timber, hay, rass, or other products of the soil, minerals, shells, sand, or gravel, rom other privileges, or from leases for public accommodations or facilities incidental to but not in conflict with the basic purposes for which those areas of the National Wildlife Refuge System were established, during each fiscal year in connection with the operation and management of thoFe areas of the National Wildlife Refuge System that are solely or primarily administered by him, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall be covered into the United States Treasury and be reserved in a separate fund for disposition as hereafter prescribed. Amounts in the fund shall remain available until expended, and may be expended by the Secretary without further appropriation in the manner hereafter prescribed. The National Wildlife Refuge System (hereafter referred to as the "System") includes those lands and waters administered by the Secretary as wildlife refuges, wildlife ranges, game ranges, wildlife management areas, and waterfowl production areas established under any law, proclamation. Executive, or public land order. " (b) The Secretary may pay from the fund any necessary expenses incurred by him in connection with the revenue-producing measures set forth in subsection (a). "(c) The Secretary, at the end of each fiscal year, shall pay, out of Payn^ents to

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the net receipts in the fund (after payment of necessary expenses) for such fiscal year, which funds shall be expended solely for the benefit of public schools and roads as follows: "(1) to each county in which reserved public lands in an area of the System are situated, an amount equal to 25 per centum of the net receipts collected by the Secretary from such reserved public lands in that particular area of the System: Provided, That when any such area is situated in more than one county the distributive share to each county from the aforesaid receipts shall be proportional to its acreage of such public lands therein; and "(2) to each county in which areas in the System are situated that have been acquired in fee by the United States, either (A) three-fourths of 1 per centum of the cost of the areas, exclusive of any improvements to such areas made subsequent to Federal acquisition, such cost to be adjusted to represent current values as determined by the Secretary for the first full fiscal year after enactment of this Act and as redetermined by him at five-year intervals thereafter, or (B) 25 per centum of the net receipts collected by the Secretary from such acquired lands in that particular area of the System within such counties, whichever is greater. The determinations by the Secretary under this subsection shall be accomplished in such manner as he shall consider to be equitable and in the public interest, and his determinations hereunder shall be final and conclusive.

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