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PUBLIC LAW 93-435-OCT. 5, 1974
[88 STAT.
Public Law 93-435 October s, 1974 TH R 11S591
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AN ACT
i— To place certain submerged lands within the jurisdiction of the governments of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled., That (a) subject to American Samoa. Valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest of the United States 1 ^d^^^o^^t ^^ lands permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters up to an"e.' ^ but uot above the line of mean high tide and seaward to a line three 48 USC 1705. geographical miles distant from the coastlines of the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, as heretofore or hereafter modified by accretion, erosion, and reliction, and in artificially made, filled in, or reclaimed lands which were formerly permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters, are hereby conveyed to the governments of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, as the case may be, to be administered in trust for the benefit of the people thereof. and^mkiTrif"'^^ (b) Thcrc are excepted from the transfer made by subsection (a) Guam, the Vir gin Islands, and
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(i) all deposits of oil, gas, and other minerals, but the term "minerals'" shall not include coral, sand, and gravel; (ii) all submerged lands adjacent to property owned by the United States above the line of mean high tide; (iii) all submerged lands adjacent to property above the line of mean high tide acquired by the United States by eminent domain proceedings, purchase, exchange, or gift, after the date of enactment of this Act, as required for completion of the Department of the Navy Land Acquisition Project relative to the construction of the Ammunition Pier authorized by the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1971 (84 Stat. 1204), as amended by section 201 of the Military Construction Act, 1978 (86 Stat. 1135); (iv) all submerged lands filled in, built up, or otherwise reclaimed by the United States, before the date of enactment of this Act, for its own use; (v) all tracts or parcels of submerged land containing on any part thereof any structures or improvements constructed by the Ignited States; (vi) all submerged lands that have heretofore been determined by the President or the Congress to be of such scientific, scenic, or historic character as to warrant preservation and administration under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a National P a r k Service, and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.); (vii) all submerged lands designated by the President within one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this Act; (viii) all submerged lands that are within the administrative responsibility of any agency or department of the United States other than the Department of the Interior; (ix) all submerged lands lawfully acquired by persons other than the United States through purchase, gift, exchange, or otherwise; (x) all submerged lands within the Virgin Islands National P a r k established by the Act of August 2, 1956 (16 U.S.C. 398 et seq.), including the lands described in the Act of October 5, 1962 (16 U.S.C. 398c-398d); and
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