Volume 86 · 382
Public Law 92–319
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States a condition in a deed conveying certain lands to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and for other purposes.
Approved June 23, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States a condition in a deed conveying certain lands to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding
Arkansas.
Land use condition, release.
the provisions of subsection (c) of section 32 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1011 (c)), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to release on behalf of the United States with respect to lands designated pursuant to section 2 hereof the condition in a deed dated October 2, 1969, conveying lands in the State of Arkansas to the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission, which requires that the lands so conveyed be used for public purposes and provides for a reversion of such lands to the United States if at any time they cease to be so used.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary shall release the condition referred to in the first section of this Act only with respect to lands covered by and described in an agreement or agreements entered into between the Secretary and the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission in which such State agency, in consideration of the release of such conditions as to such lands, agrees:
that if lands with respect, to which the condition is released are exchanged, they shall be exchanged for lands or other property of approximately comparable value and that the lands so acquired by exchange shall lie used for public purposes: and
that proceeds from a sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of lands with respect to which the condition is released shall be held in a separate fund open to inspection by the Secretary of Agriculture and shall be used by the Commission for the acquisition of lands to be held or used for public purposes.
Sec. 3.
Upon application all the undivided mineral interests of
Mineral Interests.
the United States in any parcel or tract of land released pursuant, to this Act from the condition as to such lands shall be conveyed to the Arkansas State Game and Fish (Commission for the use and benefit of the Commission by the Secretary of the Interior. In areas where the Secretary of the Interior determines that there is no active mineral development, or leasing, and that the lands have no mineral value, the mineral interests covered by a single application shall be sold for a consideration of $1. In other areas, the mineral interests shall be sold at the fair market value thereof as determined by the Secretary of the Interior after taking into consideration such appraisals as he deems necessary or appropriate.
Sec. 4.
Each application made under the provisions of section 3 of this Act shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable deposit to be applied to the administrative costs as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. If the conveyance is made, the applicant shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior the full administrative costs, less the deposit. 1 f a conveyance is not made pursuant to an application filed under this Act, the deposit shall constitute full satisfaction of such administrative costs not withstanding that the administrative costs exceed the deposit.
Sec. 5.
The term “administrative costs” as used in this Act includes, in addition to other items, all costs which the Secretary of the Interior determines are included in a determination of (1) the mineral character of the land in question, and (2) the fair market value of the mineral interest.
Approved June 23, 1972.