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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 489, 490-AUG. 5, 1947
[61 STAT.
[CHAPTER 489]
August , 1947
AN ACT
[H. R. 3043]
To provide for the transfer of certain lands to the Secretary of the Interior, and
[Public Law 361]
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Secretary of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to
Transfer of certain promote the orderly development and use of the lands and interests
lands.
therein acquired by the United States in connection with the Crab
Orchard Creek project and the Illinois Ordnance Plant in William-
son, Jackson, and Union Counties, Illinois, consistent with the needs
of agriculture, industry, recreation, and wildlife conservation, all of
the interests of the United States in and to such lands are hereby trans-
ferred to the Secretary of the Interior for administration, develop-
ment, and disposition, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Classification of
SEC. 2 . All of the lands transferred to the Secretary of the Interior,
pursuant to the provisions of this Act, first shall be classified by him
with a view to determining, in cooperation with Federal, State, and
public or private agencies and organizations, the most beneficial use
that may be made thereof to carry out the purposes of this Act, includ-
ing the development of wildlife conservation, agricultural, recrea-
f reaiofpudsp or tional, industrial, and related purposes. Such lands as have been or
may hereafter be determined to be chiefly valuable for industrial
purposes shall be leased for such purposes at such times and under
such terms and conditions as are consistent with the general purposes
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of section 2 of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, and
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with the purposes of this Act. Except to the extent otherwise pro-
vided in this Act, all lands herein transferred shall be administered
by the Secretary of the Interior through the Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 14, 1946
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100.
(Public Law 732, Seventy-ninth Congress), and Acts supplementary
16U.S.C.II 661-
e6c.
thereto and amendatory thereof for the conservation of wildlife, and
for the development of the agricultural, recreational, industrial, and
Lands uilied by related purposes specified in this Act: Provided, That no jurisdiction
War Department.iUrisdiction
shall be exercised by the Secretary of the Interior over that portion
of such lands and the improvements thereon which are now utilized
by the War Department directly or indirectly until such time as it
is determined by the Secretary of War that utilization of such portions
of such lands and the improvements thereon directly or indirectly
Administration of by the Wr Depar tment is no longer required: Providedfurther, That,
lands by Secretary of
Depat
the Interior, etc.
subsequent to the determination referred to in the preceding proviso,
the lands and improvements mentioned therein shall be administered
by the Secretary of the Interior, and any lease or other disposition
thereof shall be made subject to such terms, conditions, restrictions,
and reservations imposed by the Secretary of War as will, in the
opinion of the Secretary of War, be adequate to assure the con-
tinued availability for war production purposes of such lands and
improvements.
Approved August 5, 1947.
[CHAPTER 490]
August 5,1947
AN ACT
[H. R. 3309
To amend the Organic Act of Puerto Rico.
[Public Law 362]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Organic Act of United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 12 of
Puerto Rico, amend-
ment.
the Organic Act of Puerto Rico (48 U. S . C ., sec. 771) is hereby
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amended by repealing the second sentence thereof and substituting
lection of Oov- the following: "At the general election in 1948 and each such elec-
tion quadrennially thereafter the Governor of Puerto Rico shall be
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