Volume 80
Public Law 89–457
To amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act pertaining to the leasing of public lands to States and their political subdivisions.
Approved June 20, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act pertaining to the leasing of public lands to States and their political subdivisions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2(b) of the Act of June 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 741), as amended (43 U.S.C. 869–1 (b)), is further amended by substituting “twenty-five” for “twenty”.
Sec. 2.
Upon application by a lessee holding a lease under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act the Secretary of the Interior may enter into a new lease for a term not to exceed twenty-five years from the date of the new lease.
Approved June 20, 1966.