Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 5.djvu/244

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110 STAT. 3318 PUBLIC LAW 104-273—OCT. 9, 1996 all amounts in such fund in excess of $2,000,000 (or such lesser sum as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out this Act during such fiscal year) shall be paid to the Treasury and credited as provided in paragraph (1). "(B) On repa5m(ient of all amounts referred to in subsection (c), the fund established under this section shall be terminated and all moneys received under this Act shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.". SEC. 5. ELIMINATION OF STOCKPILE. 50 USC I67f. Section 8 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 8. ELIMINATION OF STOCKPILE. " (a) STOCKPILE SALES. — "(1) COMMENCEMENT.—Not later than January 1, 2005, the Secretary shall commence offering for sale crude helium from helium reserves owned by the United States in such amounts as would be necessary to dispose of all such helium reserves in excess of 600,000,000 cubic feet on a straightline basis between such date and January 1, 2015. "(2) TIMES OF SALE.— The sales shall be at such times during each year and in such lots as the Secretary determines, in consultation with the helium industry, to be necessary to carry out this subsection with minimum market disruption. "(3) PRICE. —The price for all sales under paragraph (1), as determined by the Secretary in consultation with the helium industry, shall be such price as will ensure repayment of the amounts required to be repaid to the Treasury under section 6(c). "(b) DISCOVERY OF ADDITIONAL RESERVES. —The discovery of additional helium reserves shall not affect the duty of the Secretary to make sales of helium under subsection (a).". SEC. 6. LAND CONVEYANCE IN POTTER COUNTY, TEXAS. 50 USC 167j. Section 12 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 12. LAND CONVEYANCE IN POTTER COUNTY, TEXAS. "(a) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary of the Interior shall transfer all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the parcel of land described in subsection (b) to the Texas Plains Girl Scout Council for consideration of $1, reserving to the United States such easements as may be necessary for pipeline rights-of-way. "(b) LAND DESCRIPTION.—The parcel of land referred to in subsection (a) is all those certain lots, tracts or parcels of land lying and being situated in the County of Potter and State of Texas, and being the East Three Hundred Thirty-One (E331) acres out of Section Seventy-eight (78) in Block Nine (9), B.S. & F. Survey, (some times known as the G.D. Landis pasture) Potter County, Texas, located by certificate No. 1/39 and evidenced by letters patents Nos. 411 and 412 issued by the State of Texas under date of November 23, 1937, and of record in Vol. 66A of the Patent Records of the State of Texas. The metes and bounds description of such lands is as follows: "(1) FIRST TRACT.— One Hundred Seventy-one (171) acres of land known as the North part of the East part of said survey Seventy-eight (78) aforesaid, described by metes and bounds as follows: