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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-288—OCT. 6, 1982

96 STAT. 1229

thence south 0 degrees 04 minutes west, along the east side of the subdivision a distance of 655.70 feet to the point of beginning. And the south half of the southwest quarter excepting the following parcels: (1) land lying west of the V and T Railroad right-of-way contained in the southeast quarter southeast quarter; and (2) southwest quarter southeast quarter. Total acreage 165.54 acres more or less. (b) Nothing in this section shall deprive any person or entity of any legal existing right-of-way, legal mining claim, legal grazing permit, legal water right (including any water right with respect to the Carson River as decreed by order of the United States District Court of the State of Nevada on October 28, 1980, in the matter of the determination of the relative rights in and to the waters of the Carson River and its tributaries in Douglas County, Nevada), or other legal right or legal interest which such person or entity may have in land described in subsection (a). (c) The lands which are declared to be held in trust and part of the Washoe Indian Reservation under subsection (a) shall be used primarily for agricultural purposes. (d) Section 164 of the Act of July 14, 1955 (69 Stat. 322, 42 U.S.C. 7474), as amended, shall be applied without regard to the provisions of this section. SEC. 2. On or before the expiration of one hundred and eighty days from the date of enactment of this Act the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall transfer to the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, the following lands which shall become national forest system lands subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the national forest system: Township 14 North, Range 19 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada Section 21: Southeast quarter northeast quarter; 40 acres. Section 28: Northeast quarter northeast quarter; 40 acres. Total acreage: 80.00 acres more or less. Approved October 6, 1982.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5081 (S. 1858): HOUSE REPORT No. 97-598 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). SENATE REPORT No. 97-509 accompanying S. 1858 (Comm. on Indian Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982): July 19, considered and passed House. Aug. 19, S. 1858, considered and passed Senate; H.R. 5081, amended, passed in lieu. Sept. 23, House concurred in Senate amendment.