Volume 97 · 298
Public Law 98–61
To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey, by quitclaim deed, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain lands that were withdrawn or acquired for the purpose of relocating a portion of the city of American Falls out of the area flooded by the American Falls Reservoir.
Approved July 28, 1983
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey, by quitclaim deed, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain lands that were withdrawn or acquired for the purpose of relocating a portion of the city of American Falls out of the area flooded by the American Falls Reservoir.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
City of American Falls, Idaho.
Land conveyance.
of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the city of American Falls, Idaho, without cost, the following real property located within or adjacent to the city limits of said city of American Falls, reserving all right-of-way and oil and gas in land to the United States:
The area identified as the Campbell Stebbins Park, containing approximately 41.5 acres, including the park area located between the Oregon Trail Highway and the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and the area identified as a Public Square, containing approximately 8.8 acres, all as shown on the official plat of the Reclamation Addition to the city of American Falls approved October 18, 1923, and recorded in the county of Power, Idaho, as instrument numbered 32042.
Block 44 of the original townsite of American Falls; containing approximately 3.3 acres.
A tract of land containing 11.7 acres, more or less, described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 21, township 7 south, range 31 east, Boise meridian; thence south 45 degrees 16 minutes east, a distance of 1,870.3 feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of said southwest quarter; thence north 58 degrees 28 minutes west, a distance of 96.3 feet; thence north 68 degrees 17 minutes west, a distance of 1,339.2 feet, more or less, to a point on the west section line of said section 21, and said point being 548.2 feet north of the southwest corner of said section; thence north along the west section line a distance of 770.5 feet, more or less, to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of said section 21, the point of beginning.
A tract of land containing 8.79 acres more or less in the south half of the southwest quarter, section 28, township 7 south, range 31 east, Boise meridian, Idaho, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of said section 28; thence north 44 degrees and 38 minutes east, 1,868.6 feet to the 16/17 corner of said section; thence east along the north boundary of the southeast quarter southwest quarter of said section 28, 367.2 feet to a point; thence south 324.9 feet to a point; thence north 89 degrees and 59 minutes west, 92.8 feet to a point; thence south 49 degrees and 23 minutes west, 361.9 feet to a point; thence south 78 degrees and 34 minutes west, 708 feet to a point; thence south 26 degrees and 55 minutes west, 333.7 feet to a point; thence south 61 degrees and 51 minutes west, 271.6 feet to a point; thence south 43 degrees and 29 minutes west, 280.3 feet to a point on the south boundary of said section 28; thence south 89 degrees and 59 minutes west along the south boundary of said section 28, 34.9 feet to the place of beginning.
A tract of land containing 8.0 acres, more or less, located in the west half of the southwest quarter, section 28, township 7 south, range 31 east, Boise meridian, Idaho, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest comer of section 28; thence north 44 degrees 38 minutes east, a distance of 1,886.6 feet to the northeast comer of the southwest quarter southwest quarter, of section 28; thence north a distance of 1,320 feet to the northeast corner of the northwest quarter southwest quarter of section 28; thence west, a distance of 30 feet to a point on the east edge of Hillcrest Avenue; thence southwesterly along a curve on the side of Hillcrest Avenue a distance of 2,955 feet to a point on line between sections 28 and 29; thence south 65.0 feet to the southwest comer of section 28, the place of beginning.
Such property shall be conveyed subject to the reservation of rights-of-way
Rights-of-way.
for ditches, canals, and pipelines constructed by the authority of the United States and to other existing rights-of-way of record. The conveyance of such property shall contain a reservation to the United States of all oil and gas in the land, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such regulation as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Approved July 28, 1983.