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Volume 73 · 571

Public Law 86–292

To amend the Act of June 14, 1926, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1954 (68 Stat 173; 43 U.S.C., sec. 869).

Approved September 21, 1959

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act of June 14, 1926, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1954 (68 Stat 173; 43 U.S.C., sec. 869).

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

That subsection (b) of section 1 of the Act of June 14, 1926, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1954 (68 Stat. 173, 174; 43 U.S.C. 869), is further amended to read as follows:

“(b)

Conveyances made in any one calendar year shall be limited as follows:

Recreational use.

Acreage limitation.

“(i)

For recreational purposes:

“(A)

To any State, for not more than three sites, six thousand four hundred acres in all, except that during each of the calendar years 1960, 1961, and 1962, conveyances may be made for not more than six sites, comprising a total of not more than twelve thousand eight hundred acres and, in addition thereto, such acreage as may be needed for small road-side parks and rest sites of not more than ten acres each.

“(B)

To any political subdivison of a State, six hundred and forty acres.

“(C)

To any nonprofit corporation or nonprofit association, six hundred and forty acres.

“(ii)

For public purposes other than recreation:

“(A)

To any State or agency or instrumentality thereof, for any one program, six hundred and forty acres.

“(B)

To any political subdivision of a State, six hundred and forty acres.

“(C)

To any nonprofit corporation or nonprofit association, six hundred and forty acres.”

Sec. 2.

The last sentence of section 3 of the Act of June 14, 1926, as amended, is repealed.

Approved September 21, 1959.

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