§ 441m. Disposition of excess gunnery range lands and reservation lands; purchase; terms and conditions; life estates and use restrictions

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1968

   Pub. L. 90–468 § 4 · 82 Stat. 663

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 441m

   Pub. L. 90–468, § 4, Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 664

   Source evidence

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   Pub. L. 90–468, § 4, Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 664

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. (a) All Federal lands and interests in lands within the Bad-lands Air Force gunnery range that are outside the boundaries of the monument, and that have been declared excess to the needs of the Department of the Air Force, and that are not purchased by former owners under section 3(b), and all lands that have been acquired by the United States under authority of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), and subsequent relief Acts, situated within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, administrative jurisdiction over which has heretofore been transferred by the President from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order Numbered 7868, dated April 15, 1938, 3 F.R. 903. shall be subject to the following provisions of this section. (b) Any former Indian owner of land that is within the Badlands Air Force’ gunnery range and outside the boundaries of the monument and that has not been declared excess to the needs of the Department of the Air Force on the date of the enactment of this Act may, within the period specified in section 3(b) (5), elect (i) to purchase an available tract of hind described in section 4(a) of substantially the same value, or (ii) to purchase the tract formerly owned by him at such time as such tract is declared excess and transferred to the Secretary of the Interior as provided in section 3(a). (c) Any former Indian owner of a tract of land within the boundaries of the monument that was acquired by the United States for the Badlands Air Force gunnery range, and that is transferred to the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to section 2 of this Act, may, within the period specified in section 3(b)(5), elect (i) to acquire from the Secretary of the Interior a life estate in such tract at no cost, subject to restrictions on use that may be prescribed in regulations aplicable to the monument, or (ii) to purchase an available tract of land described in section 4(a) of substantially the same value. (d) Purchases under subsection (b) and clause (ii) of subsection (c) of this section shall be made on the terms provided in section 3(b).

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