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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

PUBLIC LAW 100-699—NOV. 19, 1988

102 STAT. 4629

Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. The report of the Secretary shall include, but not be limited to, findings with respect to the historical and natural values of the lands and resources involved, and recommendations as to the historic preservation and markings of the area. (d) AUTHORIZATION OP APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

TITLE V—CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA SEC. 501. CATHOUC DIOCESE OF RENO/LAS VEGAS. NEVADA.

Real property.

(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: (1) In 1949 Marie D. Lawton purchased from Clark County in a tax sale 40 acres of land in Clark County, Nevada. (2) She paid taxes on this property until her death in 1975, at which time the property was bequeathed to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno/Las V ^ a s to be used to benefit the Home of the Good Shepherd, which works with troubled young women in the western States. (3) Since 1975 the Diocese has paid taxes on the property. (4) It has recently been discovered that Clark County erred in seUing the property in 1949 since the land at that time was actually in the public domain. (b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to convey this property to the Diocese of Reno/Las Vegas so it may be sold to benefit the Home of the Good Shepherd. (c) CONVEYANCE.—Subject to valid existing rights and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior shall convey without consideration to the Catholic Diocese of Reno/ Las V^as, Nevada, the lands described as follows: one 40-acre parcel comprising the northwest one-quarter of southwest onequarter of section 13 township 19 south range 61 east Mount Diablo base line and meridian, subject to the limitations of subsection (d) of this section. The administrative costs of such conveyance shall be borne by the Catholic Diocese of Reno/Las Vegas, Nevada. (d) RESERVATION OF RIGHT-OF-WAY.—A right-of-way and construction easement shall be reserved to the United States to accommodate flood control facilities of the Clark County R ^ o n a l Flood Control District. Said right-of-way shall be no more than 75 feet in width and 1,320 feet in length, and shall be located in accordance with the Clark County Flood Control District Master Plan. TITLE VI—COAL MINING HERITAGE SEC. 601. COAL MINING HERITAGE STUDY.

(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, is authorized and directed to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of protecting and preserving certain significant cultural, historic, and natural resources associated with the coal mining herit£^e of southern West Virginia. The study shall include, but not be limited to, the identification of— (1) Specific sites and points of interest associated with the coal mining heritage of West Virginia, the Appalachian Region and the Nation.

Conservation. Historic preservation.