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Volume 68 · 54

Public Law 83–333

To authorize the exchange upon terms fully protecting the public Interest of the United States Public Health quarantine station at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, for a new quarantine station.

Approved April 15, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the exchange upon terms fully protecting the public Interest of the United States Public Health quarantine station at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, for a new quarantine station.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That, subject to the provisions of section 2 of this Act, the Administrator of General Services, with the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, is hereby authorized, on behalf of the United States, to exchange with the Sun Oil Company, upon such terms and conditions as the Administrator may determine to be in the public interest, the lands and buildings comprising the United States Public Health quarantine station at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, for a new quarantine station (including land and buildings, a wharf, approaches, roadways, and other improvements incidental thereto, to be constructed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Administrator) to be provided by the Sun Oil Company upon a suitable site in the Philadelphia port area.

Sec. 2.

The exchange authorized by the first section of this Act shall

Restrictions.

not be made unless the Administrator of General Services determines (1) that the value to the United States of the property to be conveyed to it is equal to or in excess of the market value of the property to be conveyed by the United States, or (2) that the United States is to receive from the Sun Oil Company, upon conveyance of the properties to be exchanged, a sum of money equal to the amount by which the market value of the property to be conveyed by the United States exceeds the value to the United States of the property to be conveyed to the United States. Any money received by the United States in connection with the exchange shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.

Approved April 15, 1954.

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