Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 111 Part 2.djvu/537

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. •{Jm•'>^-' PUBLIC LAW 105-83 —NOV. 14, 1997 111 STAT. 1617 180 days after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall convey to the State of Montana, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to— (1) $10,000,000 in Federal mineral rights in the State of Montana agreed to by the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Montana through negotiations in accordance with subsection (b); or (2) all Federal mineral rights in the tracts in Montana depicted as Otter Creek number 1, 2, and 3 on the map entitled "Ashland Map". (b) NEGOTIATIONS. —The Secretary of the Interior shall promptly enter into negotiations with the Governor of Montana for purposes of subsection (a)(1) to determine and agree to mineral rights owned by the United States having a fair market value of $10,000,000. (c) FEDERAL LAW NOT APPLICABLE TO CONVEYANCE.—Any conveyance under subsection (a) shall not be subject to the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.). (d) AVAILABILITY OF MAP. —The Secretary of the Interior shall keep the map referred to in subsection (a)(2) on file and available for public inspection in appropriate offices of the Department of the Interior located in the District of Columbia and Billings, Montana, until January 1, 2001. (e) CONVEYANCE DEPENDENT UPON ACQUISITION. —No convey- ance pursuant to subsection (a) shall take place unless the acquisition authorized in section 502(a) is executed. SEC. 504. The acquisitions authorized by sections 501 and 502 of this title may not occur prior to the earlier of: (1) 180 days after enactment of this Act; or (2) enactment of separate authorizing legislation that modifies section 501, 502, or 503 of this title. Within Reports. 120 days of enactment, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, shall submit to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, reports detailing the status of efforts to meet the conditions set forth in this title imposed on the acquisition of the interests to protect and preserve the Headwaters Forest and the acquisition of interests to protect and preserve Yellowstone National Park. For every day beyond 120 days after the enactment of this Act that the appraisals required in subsections 501(b)(5) and 502(b)(2) are not provided to the Committee on Resources of the House, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with such subsections, the 180-day period ref- erenced in this section shall be extended by one day. SEC. 505. The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (Public Law 88-578; 78 Stat. 897) (16 U.S.C. 4601-4 through 11) is amended by moving section 13 (as added by section 1021(b) of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; 110 Stat. 4210) so as to appear in title I of that Act following 16 USC section 12. 460/-i0e. 16use 47Ij note. TITLE VI—FOREST RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND SHORTAGE RELIEF SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. —Th is title may be cited as the "Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1997". Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1997. 16 USC 620 note.