Volume 75
Public Law 87–308
To reserve for use by the Department of the Army at Fort Richardson, Alaska, certain public lands in the Campbell Creek area, and for other purposes.
Approved September 26, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To reserve for use by the Department of the Army at Fort Richardson, Alaska, certain public lands in the Campbell Creek area, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subject to valid
Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Reservation of lands.
existing rights the public lands aggregating approximately four thousand seven hundred and six acres in the Campbell Creek Area, Alaska, withdrawn from the public domain by Public Land Order 2029 and described in detail in the Federal Register of December 19, 1959, page 10310 (Federal Register Document 59–10755; filed, December 18, 1959; 8:46 antemeridian), are hereby reserved for the use of the Department of the Army in conjunction with Fort Richardson for a period of ten years or, if extended by the Secretary of the Interior for a period of fifteen years, or for any shorter period as may be determined by the Secretary of the Army upon notice to the Secretary of the Interior.
The Secretary of the Interior may, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Army, authorize use or disposition of any of the land or resources reserved by subsection (a) of this section.
Upon the final termination of the reservation effected by this
Disposition.
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide for the appropriate disposition of the lands under the public land laws and other laws existing at the time of such termination. Nothing in this subsection, however, shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Army at that time from making application for further withdrawal and reservation of all or part of said lands under laws and regulations then existing.
Approved September 26, 1961.