IIA
Calendar No. 448
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 1183
[Report No. 103–277]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 22, 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
MAY 25 (legislative day, MAY 16), 1994
Reported by Mr. JOHNSTON, without amendment
AN ACT
To validate conveyances of certain lands in the State of
California that form part of the right-of-way granted
by the United States to the Central Pacific Railway
Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Railroad Right-of-Way
Conveyance Validation Act’’.
SEC. 2. VALIDATION OF CONVEYANCES.
Except as provided in section 5, the conveyances de-
scribed in section 3 (involving certain lands in Nevada
County, State of California) and section 4 (involving cer-
tain lands in San Joaquin County, State of California)
concerning lands that form parts of the right-of-way
granted by the United States to the Central Pacific Rail-
way Company in the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to aid in the
Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the
Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the
Government the Use of the same for Postal, Military, and
Other Purposes’’, approved July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. 489),
hereby are legalized, validated, and confirmed, as far as
any interest of the United States in such lands is con-
cerned, with the same force and effect as if the land in-
volved in each such conveyance had been held, on the date
of such conveyance, under absolute fee simple title by the
grantor of such land.
SEC. 3. CONVEYANCES OF LANDS IN NEVADA COUNTY,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
The conveyances of land in Nevada County, State of
California, referred to in section 2 are as follows:
(1) The conveyances entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and David G. ‘Otis’ Kantz and Virginia Thomas
Bills Kantz, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87–15995 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(2) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Antone Silva and Martha E. Silva, his wife,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87–15996 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(3) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Charlie D. Roeschen and Renee Roeschen, hus-
band and wife as joint tenants, grantees, re-
corded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
15997 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(4) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Manuel F. Nevarez and Margarita Nevarez, his
wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded June 10,
1987, as instrument number 87–15998 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(5) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Susan P. Summers, grantee, recorded June 10,
1987, as instrument number 87–15999 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(6) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and James L. Porter, a single man, as his sole and
separate property, grantee, recorded June 10, 1987,
as instrument number 87–16000 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(7) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Robert L. Helin, a single man, grantee, re-
corded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16001 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(8) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Thomas S. Archer and Laura J. Archer, hus-
band and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16002 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(9) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Wallace L. Stevens, a single man, grantee, re-
corded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16003 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(10) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Sierra Pacific Power Company, grantees, re-
corded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16004 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(11) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Truckee Public Utility District, grantees, re-
corded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16005 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(12) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Dwayne W. Haddock and Bertha M. Haddock,
his wife as joint tenants, grantees, recorded June
10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16006 in the
official records of the county of Nevada.
(13) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and William C. Thorn, grantee, recorded June 10,
1987, as instrument number 87–16007 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(14) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Jose Guadelupe Lopez, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16008 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(15) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Harold O. Dixon, an unmarried man, as to an
undivided half interest, and Pedro Lopez, a married
man, as to an undivided half interest, as joint ten-
ants, grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instru-
ment number 87–16009 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(16) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Robert E. Sutton and Patricia S. Sutton, hus-
band and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16010 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(17) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Angelo C. Besio and Eva G. Besio, his wife,
grantees, recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument
number 87–16011 in the official records of the
county of Nevada.
(18) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Lawrence P. Young and Mary K. Young, hus-
band and wife, as joint tenants, grantees, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16012 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(19) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and the estate of Charles Clyde Cozzaglio, grantee,
recorded June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–
16013 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(20) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Noel T. Hargreaves, an unmarried woman, as
her sole and separate property, grantee, recorded
June 10, 1987, as instrument number 87–16014 in
the official records of the county of Nevada.
(21) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Athleisure Enterprises, Incorporated, a Nevada
corporation, grantees, recorded January 24, 1989,
as instrument number 89–01803 in the official
records of the county of Nevada.
(22) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and Richard Bwarie, a single man as to an undi-
vided one-half interest, and Roger S. Gannam and
Lucille Gannam, husband and wife, as joint tenants,
as to an undivided one-half interest, grantees, re-
corded January 24, 1989, as instrument number
89–01804 in the official records of the county of
Nevada.
(23) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and William Campbell and Juanita R. Campbell, his
wife as joint tenants, grantees, recorded January 24,
1989, as instrument number 89–01805 in the offi-
cial records of the county of Nevada.
(24) The conveyance entered into between the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, grantor,
and William E. Cannon and Lynn M. Cannon, hus-
band and wife, as joint tenants as to an undivided
one-half interest, and Brent Collinson and Dianne
Collinson, husband and wife, as joint tenants, as to
an undivided one-half interest, grantees, recorded
January 24, 1989, as instrument number 89–01806
in the official records of the county of Nevada.
(2) legalize, validate, or confirm, with respect to
any land that is the subject of a conveyance referred
to in section 3 or 4, any right or title to, or interest
in, such land arising out of adverse possession, pre-
scription, or abandonment, and not confirmed by
such conveyance; or
(b) MINERALS.—(1) The United States hereby re-
serves any federally-owned minerals that may exist in land
that is conveyed pursuant to section 2 of this Act, includ-
ing the right of the United States, its assignees or lessees,
to enter upon and utilize as much of the surface of said
land as is necessary to remove minerals under the laws
of the United States.
(2) Any and all minerals reserved by paragraph (1)
are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropria-
tion, and patent under the mining, mineral leasing, and
geothermal leasing laws of the United States.
Passed the House of Representatives June 21, 1993.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.