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68

STAT.]

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PUBLIC LAW 5 2 5 - J U L Y 26, 1954

Public Law 524

C H A P T E R 566

AN ACT To provide for the transfer of hay and pasture seeds from the Commodity Credit Corporation to Federal land-administering agencies.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commodity Credit Corporation is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the following agencies, free on board transportation conveyance at point of storage, surplus hay and pasture seeds acquired under the price support program, as follows: To the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, not to exceed four hundred and eightyfive thousand pounds; to the Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior Department, not to exceed one hundred and sixty-three thousand pounds; to the Bureau of Land Management, Interior Department, not to exceed two hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds. The kinds and quantities of seeds transferred within such maximum quantities, subject to determination of availability and surplus supply by the Commodity Credit Corporation, shall be determined by such agencies, but shall not exceed quantities which may be utilized for the purpose specified in section 2 of this Act with funds made available under this Act and funds available for such purpose out of appropriations to such agencies for the fiscal year 1955. SEC. 2. The seeds transferred pursuant to this Act shall be used by the transferee agencies only for the purpose of seeding grazing lands administered by them. To defray costs of transporting and seeding, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the following sums: To the Forest Service, not to exceed $95,000; Fish and Wildlife Service, not to exceed $25,000; and to the Bureau of Land Management, not to exceed $25,000. SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated sudi sums as may be necessary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for its investment in the seeds transferi-ed pursuant to this Act. Approved July 26, 1954. Public Law 525

CCC hay and pasture seeds. Transfer.

Use. Appropriations.

C H A P T E R 567

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands in Alaska to the Rotary Club of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to convey by quitclaim deed to the Rotary Club of Ketchikan, Alaska, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that certain tract of land donated to the United States of America by said Rotary Club of Ketchikan, Alaska, for use for public purposes, by deed dated March 12, 1942, recorded in the land records of district 8, division numbered 1, Territory of Alaska, on March 20, 1942, in volume S of deeds, at page 574, except a strip of land seven feet in width located along the northeasterly boundary of said tract. Such land shall be conveyed on the express condition that if at any time the said lands shall cease to be used for public purposes title thereto shall revert to and become vested in the United States of America. Approved July 26, 1954.

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Rotary C l u b of Ketchikan, Alaska. Conveyance.