Volume 75 · 389
Public Law 87–151
To provide for the disposal of certain Federal property on the Minidoka project, Idaho, Shoshone project, Wyoming, and Yakima project, Washington, and for other purposes.
Approved August 17, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the disposal of certain Federal property on the Minidoka project, Idaho, Shoshone project, Wyoming, and Yakima project, Washington, 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 of the Interior is authorized to sell the following described lands, together with any improvements located thereon:
Block 67 of the reclamation townsite of Rupert, Minidoka project, Idaho, containing 1.64 acres, more or less;
Lots 21 and 22, block 48, of the reclamation townsite of Powell, Shoshone project, Wyoming, containing 0.48 acre, more or Jess; and
Block 23, town of Zillah, Washington, containing 1.65 acres, more or less; a parcel located in the south half northeast quarter southwest quarter southwest quarter of section 25, township 9 north, range 24 east, Willamette meridian, Washington, lying below the Sunnyside main canal, containing 4.36 acres, more or less, and that part of the northwest quarter southeast quarter of section 12, township 8 north, range 22 east, Willamette meridian, Washington, containing 1.16 acres, more or less, beginning at the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of said section 12, township 8 north, range 22 east, Willamette meridian,
thence north 89 degrees 44 minutes east 337.9 feet; thence south 9 degrees 58 minutes west 35 feet; thence south 14 degrees 18 minutes west 25 feet; thence south 19 degrees 23 minutes west 25 feet;
thence south 24 degrees 46 minutes west 25 feet; thence south 34 degrees 46 minutes west 25 feet; thence south 53 degrees 13 minutes west 25 feet; thence south 64 decrees 13 minutes west 20.8 feet;
thence north 87 degrees 22 minutes west 253.3 feet, more or less, to the north-south line of the centerline of said section 12; thence north 00 degrees 22 minutes west along said north-south centerline 136.3 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, all located on the Yakima project, Washington.
Sales.
Sales shall be by public auction to the highest qualified bidder, but in no event shall any sale be for less than the appraised valuation, as approved by the Secretary. Any of the lands described above, together with improvements located thereon, which are not sold after being offered for sale at public auction, shall remain available for sale at not less than the appraised valuation, until withdrawn from sale by the Secretary.
Sec. 2.
The proceeds from the sale of the property described in section 1(a) of this Act shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary for the construction of an operation and maintenance headquarters and related facilities, as determined by the Secretary to be necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Gravity division of the Minidoka project, Idaho. The proceeds from the sale of the property described in section 1(b) of this Act shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary for the construction of an operation and maintenance headquarters and related facilities, as determined by the Secretary to be necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Shoshone project, Wyoming. The proceeds from the sale of the property described in section 1(c) of this Act shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary for the construction of an operation and maintenance headquarters and related facilities, as determined by the Secretary to be necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Sunnyside division, Yakima project, Washington.
Sec. 3.
Any of the proceeds from the sales which are authorized by section 1 of this Act and which are not required for the construction of operation and maintenance headquarters and related facilities, as authorized by section 2 of this Act, shall be applied as provided by subsection I, section 4, Act of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 703).
Sec. 4.
The Secretary is hereby authorized, subject only to the provisions
Administrative authority.
of this Act, to perform such acts, to delegate such authority, and to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect: Provided, however, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing additional appropriations in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Approved August 17, 1961.