PUBLIC LAW 99-199—DEC. 23, 1985
99 STAT. 1661
Public Law 99-199 99th Congress An Act To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to releeise the condition requiring that a parcel of land conveyed to New York State be used for public purposes and to convey United States mineral interests in the parcel to New York State.
Dec. 23, 1985 [H.R. 2976]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. SECTION 1. (a) Upon compliance by the State of New York with the requirements contained in section 3 of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall release on behalf of the United States the condition described in subsection (b) of this section with respect to the parcel of land described in section 4 of this Act. (b) The condition to be released pursuant to subsection (a) of this section is the condition (contained in a quitclaim deed dated July 28, 1961, which conveys from the United States to the State of New York certain land in Allegany County and which was recorded on May 23, 1962, in the office of the Allegsmy County Clerk in the Book of Deeds 546 at page 632) providing that the land conveyed be used for public purposes and that the land revert to the United States if it is not used for public purposes. (c) Section 32(c) of the Bankhead^ones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1011(c)) is inapplicable to the release provided for by subsection (a) of this section. SEC. 2. Upon application by the State of New York and compliance by the State with the requirements contained in section 3, the Secretary of the Interior shall convey to the State of New York— (1) without compensation, all the undivided mineral interests of the United States in the parcel of land described in section 4 for which the Secretary of the Interior determines that there is no active mineral development or leasing and that there is no fair market value; and (2) upon payment to the United States of an amount equal to the fair market value (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior) of such mineral interests, all the undivided mineral interests of the United States in the parcel of land described in section 4 which are not subject to paragraph (1) of this section. SEC. 3. Before the condition described in subsection (b) of section 1 may be released pursuant to subsection (a) of that section or any mineral interest may be conveyed pursuant to section 2, the State of New York must— (1) sign an agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture stat- Contracts. ing that the State of New York will convey the parcel of land described in section 4 to the Bellville Wesleyan Church of rural Caneadea, New York, for a fair and equitable consideration, and deposit the proceeds from such conveyance in an account open to inspection by the Secretary of Agriculture, and used, if withdrawn from such account, exclusively for public purposes; and
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