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PUBLIC LAW 87-457--MAY 28, 1962
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Public Law 87-457 ' AN ACT To provide for the acquisition of a patented mining claim on the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park, and for other purposes.
May 28, 1962 [S. 383]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to orand canyon acquire for Grand Canyon National P a r k certain private land strate- JJi'^J^g claim, cfaimr^cgically located inside the park on the south rim of Grand Canyon and qulsitioric to provide for the removal of surface structures thereon and the termination of mining activities in connection with such land which intrudes upon the rim of Grand Canyon and adversely affects the public enjoyment of the park, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept on the terms hereinafter stated the conveyance of title to the Orphan Claim, a mining claim of approximately 20.64 acres patented to D. L. Hogan and C. J. Babbitt on March 23, 1906, patent numbered 43506: Provided, Said authority is conditioned upon the grantor releasing any extralateral rights it may have to follow under adjoining park lands any mineral discovery made on the aforesaid Orphan Claim. The grantor shall, within six months following the passage of this Act, execute to the United States deeds of conveyance of good and sufficient fee simple title to the said claim, subject to the following reservations and conditions: Conditions. (a) All mineral rights on the said claim shall be reserved to the said grantor for a period of twenty-five years, but the exercise of said rights shall be limited to underground mining. (b) Until the close of 1966 the grantor shall be permitted to maintain and operate the Grand Canyon Inn and related cottages and facilities and may reserve for said period the customary rights to use so much of the surface area of the claim as is necessary for mining operations. (c) After 1966 and until the expiration of the mineral reservation the grantor shall have reserved to it the surface rights to only the following described tract of approximately three acres which is necessary to operate the said mine: Beginning at an iron stake known as corner numbered 2 of the Description. Orphan Claim, mineral survey numbered 2004 in section 14, township 31 north, range 2 east, Gila and Salt River base and meridian; thence north 41 degrees 03 minutes east 500 feet; thence north 60 degrees 15 minutes west 300 feet; thence south 41 degrees 03 minutes west 500 feet to the south end center of said claim; thence south 60 decrees 15 minutes east 300 feet to place of beginning, including all buildings and improvements as per survey of April 21, 1905. (d) Any structures erected on the reserved portion of surface rights Structures. shall be no more than two stories in height and shall be so designed as to be appropriate to the region. (e) The grantor shall be permitted to maintain and operate the Right s of grantor. present aerial tramway for not to exceed two years from the date of the conveyance to the United States; and throughout the allowable period of its mining to maintain and operate the sixty-thousand-gallon water tank; the access road across the claim to the mine area, the portal area of the present adit, and such ventilators from the mine as may be required by mine safety laws. (f) The grantor shall be permitted to haul ore from its mining operations to such mills as directed by the Atomic Energy Commission or otherwise, over roads of the Grand Canyon National P a r k upon payment of use charges therefor, as agreed between the parties but reasonably calculated to provide such additional cost of maintenance of said roads, if any, as may be occasioned by such operations.
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