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Volume 71

Public Law 85–206

To provide for the conveyance of interests of the United States in and to fissionable materials in certain tracts of land situated in Cook County, Illinois, and in Buffalo County, Nebraska.

Approved August 28, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the conveyance of interests of the United States in and to fissionable materials in certain tracts of land situated in Cook County, Illinois, and in Buffalo County, Nebraska.

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

That the Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the city of Chicago, a municipal corporation of the State of Illinois, all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to “fissionable materials”, as defined by Executive

3 CFR, 1943–1948 Comp., p. 510.

Order Numbered 9701 issued March 4, 1946, in the tract of land in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, which was conveyed by quitclaim deed from the United States of America to the city of Chicago, recorded on March 22, 1946, in the office of recorder of deeds of Cook County, Illinois, as document numbered 13747964: the exact legal description of such land shall be determined by the Administrator of General Services.

Sec. 2.

The Administrator of General Services is authorized and

Kearney, Nebr.

Conveyance.

directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the city of Kearney, a municipal corporation of the county of Buffalo and State of Nebraska, all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to uranium, thorium, and other materials determined pursuant to section 5 (b) (1)

42 USC 1805.

of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 761) to be peculiarly essential to the production of fissionable material, contained in the tract of land in the county of Buffalo, State of Nebraska, which was conveyed by quitclaim deed from the United States of America to the city of Kearney, recorded on June 15, 1950, at book 151, page 47, in the deed records of Buffalo County, Nebraska (said deed having been issued by Deputy Regional Director, Liquidation Service, General Services Administration, Office of Real Property Disposal, on behalf of the Administrator of General Services in the name of United States of America).

Approved August 28, 1957.

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