106 STAT. 246 PUBLIC LAW 102-301—JUNE 19, 1992 SEC. 8. MINERAL WITHDRAWAL. (a) IN GENERAL. —Subject to valid existing rights, federally owned lands and interests therein that are depicted on a map entitled "Mineral Withdrawal Area, California Coastal Zone, Big Sur—Proposed" and dated September 1991 are withdrawn from entry, location, appropriation, leasing, sale, or disposition under the mining laws, mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws of the United States, (b) MINING CLAIMS.— Subject to valid existing rights, all mining claims located within the withdrawal area depicted on the map described in subsection (a) shall be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe to ensure that mining will, to the greatest practicable extent, be consistent with the protection of scenic, scientific, cultural, and other resources of the area. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not approve any plan of operation prior to a determination that the unpatented mining claim was valid prior to the mineral withdrawal created by this Act and remains valid. A patent for land within the withdrawal area that is issued after the date of enactment of this Act shall convey title only to the minerals together with the right to use the suiface of lands for mining purposes subject to such regulations. SEC. 9. ADDITIONAL USES OF CERTAIN LANDS IN CALIFORNIA. (a) REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. —Notwithstanding the restrictions otherwise applicable under the terms of conveyance by the United States of any of the lands described in subsection (b) to either the city of Pittsburg, California, or Merced Coiuity, California, or under any agreement concerning any part of such lands between either such city or such county and the Secretary of the Interior or any other officer or agent of the United States, the lands described in subsection (b) may be used for the purposes specified in subsection (c) of this section. (b) LANDS AFFECTED. —The lands referred to in subsection (a) ( of this section are— (1) any portion not exceeding 1.5 acres of the lands described in that certain Quitclaim Deed of the United States to the city of Pittsburg, California, bearing the date of March 25, 1960, and recorded in Record of Deeds of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, as document No. 79015, in Book 3759 at page 1 of Records; and (2) the south 15 acres of the 40 acres located in the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 20, township 7 south, range 13 east. Mount Diablo base line and Meridisui in Merced County, California, conveyed to such county by deed recorded in volume 1941 at page 441 of the official records in Merced County, California. (c) AUTHORIZED USES. —(1) The city of Pittsburg, California, may use the lands described in subsection (b)(1) of this section for a fire station or other public purpose, or may transfer such lands to another governmental entity on condition that such entity retain and use such lands for such purpose. (2) Merced County, California, may authorize the use of the lands described in subsection (b)(2) of this section for an elementary school serving children without regard to their race, creed, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sex, operated by a nonsectarian organization on a nonprofit basis and in compliance with all applicable requirements of the laws of the United States
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