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 98 STAT. 3158

PUBLIC LAW 98-603—OCT. 30, 1984

30 USC 181 note.

coal lease applications under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, the Secretary may not transfer any United States interests in such lands until the noncompetitive coal lease applications have been fully adjudicated. If such adjudication results in issuance of Federal coal leases to the applicants, such transfer shall be subject to such leases. The leaseholders rights and interests in such coal leases will in no way be diminished by the transfer of the rights, title and interests of the United States in such lands to the Navajo Tribe. If any selected lands are subject to valid claims located under the Mining Law of 1872 the transfer of the selected lands may be made subject to those claims."; and (3) by inserting the following new paragraph: "(2) Those interests in lands acquired in the State of New Mexico by the Navajo Tribe pursuant to subsection 2 of this section shall be subject to the right of the State of New Mexico to receive the same value from any sales, bonuses, rentals, royalties and interest charges from the conveyance, sale, lease, development, and production of coal as would have been received had the subsurface interest in such lands remained with the United States and been leased pursuant to the Mineral 30 USC 181 note. Lands Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, or any successor Act; or otherwise developed. The State's interest shall be accounted for in the same manner as it would have been if a lease had issued pursuant to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, as amended.". Public lands. SEC. 107. (a) Subject to valid existing rights and except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey to the New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, at a cost of $2.50 per acre, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following described public lands aggregating approximately 5,711.39 acres in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, to be used for the purpose of conducting educational, demonstrative, and experimental development with livestock, grazing methods, and range forage plants and other agricultural related research: New Mexico Principal Meridian Township 20 south, range 1 east Sections 16, 32, and 36, all. Township 21 south, range 1 east Sections 2, and 16, all. Township 20 south, range 1 west Sections 2, and 16, all. Section 26, north half northeast quarter, northeast quarter northwest quarter; Section 32, north half, north half southwest quarter, north half southeast quarter, southeast quarter southeast quarter; and Section 36, all. (b) There are reserved to the United States all minerals that may be found in the lands described in subsection (a), together with the right of the United States, its permittees, lessees, or grantees, at any time, to prospect for, mine and remove such minerals. (c) In the event that the lands described in subsection (a), or any part thereof, are used for any purpose other than those for which conveyance is authorized, title to the entire tract shall immediately

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