Volume 76 · 1403
Private Law 87–663
To authorize the conveyance of certain lands within the Clark Hill Reservoir, Savannah River. Georgia-South Carolina, to the Georgia-Carolina Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, for recreation and camping purposes.
Approved October 18, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the conveyance of certain lands within the Clark Hill Reservoir, Savannah River. Georgia-South Carolina, to the Georgia-Carolina Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, for recreation and camping 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 Army is authorized and directed to convey to the Georgia-Carolina Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, without monetary consideration therefor, but subject to the conditions of this Act, the area or areas he determines to be available for conveyance within the two hundred and eighty-two acres of hind leased to the said Boy Scouts Council at the Clark Hill Reservoir, Savannah River, Georgia-South Carolina, under lease granted January 1, 1961, numbered DA–09–133–CIVENG–61–316.
Sec. 2.
Title to property authorized to be conveyed by this Act shall revert to the United States, which shall have the right of immediate entry thereon, if the Georgia-Carolina Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America—
has not commenced the development of such property for recreation and camping purposes within the three-year period beginning on the. date of enactment of this Act; or
shall ever cease to use such property for recreation and camping purposes.
Sec. 3.
The Secretary of the Army is authorized to grant to the Georgia-Carolina Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, such rights-of-way for public access and utility lines across any property of the United States as may be necessary to facilitate the development and use of the property conveyed under authority of this Act for recreation and camping purposes.
Sec. 4.
The conveyance of the property herein authorized shall be subject to the right to flood due to the fluctuation of the water level of the Clark Hill Reservoir project and to such other conditions, reservations, and restrictions as the Secretary of the Army may determine to be necessary for the management and operation of said Clark Hill Dam and Reservoir project.
Sec. 5.
The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident of the conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the Georgia-Carolina Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America.
Approved October 18, 1962.