Volume 68
Public Law 83–401
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain improvements on national forest land in Arizona to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, and for other purposes.
Approved June 18, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain improvements on national forest land in Arizona to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Roosevelt, Ariz.
Sale of Forest Service improvements.
of Agriculture is hereby authorized in his discretion to sell to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association of Arizona, for cash, at a fair appraised value to be determined by him, the following described improvements on national forest lands situated in an unsurveyed portion of township 4 north, range 12 east, Gila and Salt River Meridian, estimated to be within the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 20 of that township in Gila County, State of Arizona:
all buildings and other physical improvements owned by the United States and under the administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, situated at the reclamation settlement of Roosevelt, Arizona.
The proceeds of such sale or sales shall, if sufficient for the purpose,
Use of proceeds.
be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for the development and improvement of a Forest Service ranger dwelling located elsewhere in the Tonto National Forest. If the development and improvement of such ranger dwelling cannot be accomplished without the use of funds in excess of such proceeds, such proceeds shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Approved June 18, 1954.