Volume 81 · 226
Public Law 90–85
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center in Alameda County, California, and to provide for the establishment of a plant materials center at a more suitable location to replace the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center, and for other purposes.
Approved September 11, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center in Alameda County, California, and to provide for the establishment of a plant materials center at a more suitable location to replace the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center, 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 Agriculture is authorized to convey to the County of Alameda, State of California, by quitclaim deed, for not less than fair market value as determined by independent appraisal, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center, situated in Alameda County, California, and the improvements thereon, which conveyance may be made subject to such reservations and upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary may deem appropriate, including the reservation of the right to continue the operation of the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center until a plant materials center to replace the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center shall be constructed, equipped, and ready for operation, and the functions of the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center are removed to the new site.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to apply the
Proceeds of sale, use.
proceeds of the sale of the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center to the costs of acquiring other lands or interests in land in the State of California which the Secretary deems suitable for a plant materials center to be established as a replacement for the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center, to the cost of construction and alteration of buildings, and the development of such other improvements thereon as may be necessary for the establishment of the plant materials center, and to the costs of removal to such center or the functions of the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center, including the expenses incident to the transfer of personnel, and the removal of equipment, planting stock, and Other property.
Sec. 3.
Proceeds received from the sale of the Pleasanton Plant Materials Center shall be available to the Secretary until expended for carrying out this Act. Any such funds which the Secretary determines are not required for the establishment of a comparable new plant materials center as provided in this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.
Approved September 11, 1967.