112 STAT. 2690 PUBLIC LAW 105-279—OCT. 23, 1998 Public Law 105-279 105th Congress An Act O t 2^ IQQR "^^ provide for the expeditious completion of the acquisition of private mineral ——'. interests within the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument mandated [H.R. 1659] by the 1982 Act that established the Monument, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Mount St. Helens the United States of America in Congress assembled, National Volcanic Monument SECTION. 1. SHORT TITLE. 16 USC 431 note. This Act may be cited as the "Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Completion Act". SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds the following: (1) The Act entitled "An Act to designate the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in the State of Washington, and for other purposes", approved August 26, 1982 (96 Stat. 301; 16 U.S.C. 431 note), required the United States to acquire all land and interests in land in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. (2) The Act directed the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire the surface interests and the mineral and geothermal interests by separate exchanges and expressed the sense of the Congress that the exchanges be completed by November 24, 1982, and August 26, 1983, respectively. (3) The surface interests exchange was consummated timely, but the exchange of all mineral and geothermal interests has not yet been completed a decade and a half after the enactment of the Act. (b) PURPOSE. —The purpose of this Act is to facilitate and otherwise provide for the expeditious completion of the previously mandated Federal acquisition of private mineral and geothermal interests within the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. SEC. 3. ACQUISITION OF MINERAL AND GEOTHERMAL INTERESTS WITHIN MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT. Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to designate the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in the State of Washington, and for other purposes", approved August 26, 1982 (Public Law 97-243; 96 Stat. 302; 16 U.S.C. 431 note), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsections: "(g) EXCHANGES FOR MINERAL AND GEOTHERMAL INTERESTS HELD BY CERTAIN COMPANIES. —
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