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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

99 STAT. 1664

Prohibition.

PUBLIC LAW 99-200—DEC. 23, 1985

defined in the case of California against Nevada (447 U.S. 125 (1980)); and (2) which have been patented or otherwise conveyed to a third party by the State of Neyada, are not invalid because such land or portions of such land are located in the State of California. SEC. 4. CERTAIN LANDS NOT AFFECTED. This Act shall not apply to any public land referred to in section 2 or 3 which has not been patented or otherwise conveyed to a third party by the State of California or the State of Nevada, as the case maybe. SEC. 5. LANDS AFFECTED.

Patents and trademarks.

Federal Register, publication.

Public availability.

As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall request the States of California and Nevada to submit to the Secretary maps and a list of patents or other conveyances for tracts of land the two States agree are affected by sections 2 and 3 of this Act. Upon concurring that the patents or other conveyances so listed are those intended to be covered by this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish the list of patents or other conveyances in the Federal Register. The Secretary is authorized to make clerical and typographical corrections of errors in the list of patents or other conveyances and maps. Such maps, using the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Master Title Plats showing the affected lands, shall be on file for illustrative purposes and along with the list of patents or other conveyances shall be available for public inspection with the State Directors of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, in California and Nevada, and with the State Lands Administrator of Nevada and State Lands Commissioner of California. SEC. 6. STATE RIGHTS.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as conferring on either the State of California or the State of Nevada any rights with regard to entitlements to Federal lands, or as enlarging, diminishing, or otherwise affecting any such rights which may exist under other provisions of law. Approved December 23, 1985.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3085 (S. 1503): HOUSE REPORT No. 98-385 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 131 (1985): Dec. 9, considered and passed House. Dec. 11, considered and passed Senate.