PUBLIC LAW 98-242—MAR. 22, 1984
98 STAT. 103
north 12 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds west 108.44 feet to a point; thence north 77 degrees 32 minutes 30 seconds east 34.31 feet to a point; thence north 12 degrees 07 minutes west 151.19 feet to a point in the southern line of United States Highway 74; thence north 77 degrees 53 minutes east 240.00 feet to the northernmost corner of said tract numbered 1, map book 7, page 40; thence with the eastern lines of said tract numbered 1 south 12 degrees 07 minutes east 723.8 feet to its easternmost corner; thence continuing with said eastern line south 38 degrees 55 minutes west 723.8 feet to the point of beginning, containing 14.079 acres. (B) Beginning at a point in the old northern right of way of United States Highway 76 (Causeway Drive) and the southern line of tract numbered 1 as shown by map, "Property of State of North Carolina" recorded in map book 7, page 40, New Hanover County Registry, said point located north 51 degrees 05 minutes west 1068.47 feet as with said line from the southeastern corner of said tract numbered 1; running thence from said beginning with said line north 51 degrees 05 minutes west 322.62 feet to a point in the new right of way of United States Highway 76; thence with said new right of way north 19 degrees 27 minutes 15 seconds west 32.01 feet to an iron rod; thence continuing with said new right of way north 33 degrees 42 minutes 15 seconds east 94.98 feet to an iron rod in the southern right of way of United States Highway 74; thence with said southern line north 77 degrees 53 minutes east 570.17 feet to an iron pipe; thence south 38 degrees 55 minutes west 554.55 feet to the point of beginning, containing 2.72 acres and being the western portion of said tract numbered 1 recorded in map book 7, page 40. SEC. 202. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and Rosweii, N. Mex. subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall convey, not later than Public lands. December 31, 1983, and without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in the real property described in subsection (b) of this section, which constitutes the Roswell Test Facility, to the city of Roswell, New Mexico. (2) Such conveyance shall be made on the condition that, during the period beginning on the date of such conveyance and ending on December 31, 1987, such facility is— (A) maintained in a working order which is comparable to the condition of such facility on the date of such conveyance, and (B) operated and maintained primarily for desalinization or other related research. (b) The real property referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall consist of so much of the real property located in the county of Chaves, New Mexico, as constitutes the Roswell Test Facility. Such real property shall consist of— (1) the lands at the Roswell site as conveyed to the United States by the city of Roswell, New Mexico, by warranty deed dated April 13, 1961, said deed being recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county of Chaves, New Mexico, at book 205, page 406, and more fully describing such lands as being— A tract of land lying and being situated in the southwest quarter of section 32, township 10 south, range 25 east, New Mexico principal meridian, and being more particularly described as; beginning at a point on the west line of said section 32 which bears north 3 degrees 58 minutes east at 137 feet distant from the southwest corner of said section
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