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PUBLIC LAW 717-AUG. 30, 1954

the State of Orejjon certain property of the United States Government situated in Klamath County, Oregon, and described as follows: All that portion of the southwest quarter northwest quarter and the southeast quarter northwest quarter of section 22, township 39 south, range 9 east, Willamette meridian, Klamath County, Oregon, described as follows: Commencing at the north quarter corner of said section 22, thence, leaving said north quarter corner, south no degrees twenty-one minutes west a distance of one thousand three hundred and forty-three feet to the center line of the county road known as the Joe Wright Road; thence continuing south no degrees twenty-one minutes west a distance of thirty feet to the southerly right-of-way boundary of said county road; thence along said southerly right-of-way boundary, north eighty-nine degrees three minutes west a distance of one hundred fifty-four and six-tenths feet to the true point of beginning; thence leaving said southerly boundary south no degrees twenty-one minutes Avest, a distance of five hundred and thirty-two feet to a point; thence north eighty-nine degrees three minutes west a distance of two hundred and thirteen feet to a point, thence north no degrees twentyone minutes east a distance of five hundred and thirty-two feet to said southerly right-of-Avay boundary; thence along said southerly right-of-way boundary south eighty-nine degrees three minutes east a distance of two hundred and thirteen feet to the true point of beginning and containing an area of two and sixty one-hundredths acres more or less, and shall be conveyed together with all buildings, improvements thereon, and all appurtenances and utilities belonging or appertaining thereto, and the General Services Administration shall execute and deliver in the name of the United States in its behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments as may be necessary to effectuate the said transfer: Provided, That there shall be reserved to the United States all minerals, including oil and gas, in the lands authorized for conveyance of this section. There shall be reserved to the United States, in the conveyance of the above-described lands, rights of ingress and egress over roads in the above-described lands serving buildings or other works operated by the United States or its successors or assigns in connection with the Klamath project. There shall be further reserved in said lands all rights-of-way for Avaterlines, sewer lines, telephone and telegraph lines, powerlines, and such other utilities as now exist, or may become necessary to the operation of said Klamath project. Such conveyance shall contain a provision that said property shall be used primarily for training of the National Guard or Air National Guard and for other military purposes, and that, if the State of Oregon shall cease to use the property so conveyed for the primary purposes intended, then title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States and, in addition, all improvements made by the State of Oregon during its occupancy shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation therefor. Such conveyance shall contain the further provision, that whenever the Congress of the United States shall declare a state of Avar or other national emergency, or the President declares a state of emergency to exist, and upon the determination by the appropriate Secretary that the property so conveyed is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall have the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any and all improvements made by the State of Oregon for the duration of such state of war or other national emergency and upon the cessation thereof plus six months said property

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