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President signed S. 2286 - Land conveyance, New Mexico [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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President signed S. 2286 - Land conveyance, New Mexico [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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Digitized from Box 31 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
SEPTEMBER 29, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The President has signed S. 2286 -- Land conveyance, New Mexico. This
bill authorizes relinquishment of the reversionary interest in approximately
3 acres of land to the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In 19 6, the United States conveyed to the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
640 acres of land with a reverter clause specifying that if any of the land was
used for other than park purposes, title to it would revert to the United States.
An Act was passed in 1974 that authorized relinquishment of the reversionary
interest of the United States in these two tracts.
S. 2286 will enlarge one of the two tracts cited in the 1974 Act from 0.7 acre
to approximately 3.7 acres. The conveyance conditions specified under the
1974 Act would apply to the enlarged tract.
The President has signed S. 2371 -- Regulation of mining within the National
Park System. This bill closes six areas of the National Park System to further
mineral claims under the Mining Law of 1872, and provides specific authority
to the Secretary of the Interior to regulate the exercise of existing valid mineral
claims in those areas.
These are: Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska; Death Valley National Monument,
California; Coronado National Memorial, Arizona; Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument, Arizona; Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska; and Crater Lake
National Park, Oregon.
Under the Mining Law of 1872, mineral deposits in lands within the public domain
were opened to exploration and purchase by citizens of the United States. Mineral
rights on individual tracts of land could be patented by any eligible claimant.
S. 2371 will prohibit, subject to valid existing rights, further mineral development
in these six acres.
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