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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

102 STAT. 1802

Nevada. Housing. Aged persons. Minerals and mining.

48 USC 1681 note. Grants. Marshall Islands. Contracts. Loans. Guam. Water. Utilities;

Louisiana. Contracts. Water.

PUBLIC LAW 100-446—SEPT. 27, 1988

of 86 degrees West longitude and for areas identified as the Northem California Planning Area and the Georges Bank-North Atlantic Planning Area out to 400 meters. SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary of the Interior shall transfer to the Housing Authority, Clark County, Nevada, without consideration, all rights, title, and interest of the United States, in and to the land described as township 21 south, range 60 east. Mount Diablo Meridian, section 24, north half southwest quarter, Clark County Nevada, for use only as a mobile home park for low income senior citizens, reserving to the United States all minerals under applicable law and such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and as required by the Act of August 30, 1890 (43 U.S.C. 945), a right-of-way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States: Provided, That if such land ceases to be used as a mobile home park for low income senior citizens, all rights, title, and interest in and to such land shall revert to the United States. SEC. 115. Section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (99 Stat. 1783, 48 U.S.C. 1681) is amended as follows: after the word "firm" insert "or by a grant to the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands which may further contract only with a United States firm or a Republic of the Marshall Islands firm, the owners, officers and majority of the employees of which are citizens of the United States or the Republic of the Marshall Islands"; and, after the word "Bikini" insert ", Rongelap, Utrik,". SEC. 116. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to guarantee a loan by the Federal Financing Bank to the Government of Guam, in amounts not to exceed $53,000,000, for water system improvements on Guam: Provided, That the conditions on such loan shall include but not be limited to the following: the Government of Guam shall place water rate-making authority in an independent public utility commission; a source of revenue for payment of the loan shall he identified, with such revenues placed in an escrow account in sufficient amounts to insure timely payment; and, should the Government of Guam default on the loan, the Secretary of the Interior shall deduct such sums as are in arrears from sums normally paid to the Government of Guam under section 1(c) of Public Law 95-348. SEC. 117. Within currently available funds, the Secretary of the Interior is directed immediately to appoint and compensate an independent third party factfinder mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and the Governor of Louisiana, to make all appropriate factual findings relating to past drainage on State and Federal leases occurring along the boundary of the State of Louisiana and Federal waters. Such factual findings shall include— (a) whether drainage of either United States or State hydrocarbons has occurred during the time period starting April 7, 1986 and ending on the date the factfinding proceeding is completed; (b) the areas or reservoirs from which the drainage occurred; (c) the quantity of recoverable hydrocarbons, determined on a volumetric basis, originally in place within such areas or reservoirs prior to any production therefrom; (d) the respective percentages of such recoverable hydrocarbons within the Federal and State portions of such areas or reservoirs;