A bill to authorize the conveyance of lands in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
PL 96-203 (S.1850), enacted 03/10/1980

PUBLIC LAW 96-203—MAR. 10, 1980 
94 STAT. 81 
Public Law 96-203 
96th Congress 
An Act 
To authorize the conveyance of lands in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That notwithstand-
ing any provisions of the Act of May 8,1922 (42 Stat. 506), the Leo N. 
Levi Memorial Hospital Association is authorized to assign or convey 
all or any portion of or interests in and to lots one and two, in block 
114 in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to a nonprofit corporation 
organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors or 
assigns, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining thereon a 
housing facility for the elderly. Execution of such assignment or 
conveyance by the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Association and 
execution of mortgages by said nonprofit corporation or its successors 
or assigns, in connection with the housing faciUty, shall not consti-
tute a forfeiture of any rights granted to the Leo N. Levi Memorial 
Hospital Association by said Act of May 8,1922. If at any time after 
lots one or two of block 114 are assigned or conveyed to said nonprofit 
corporation the property is used or permitted to be used for purposes 
other than housing facilities for the elderly or the purposes provided 
for in the Act of May 8,1922, all the rights, privileges, and powers in 
such property authorized by this Act or by said Act of May 8, 1922, 
shall be forfeited to the United States. 
SEC. 2. The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (78 
Stat. 897), as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601-4 et seq.), is further amended as 
follows: 
(1) in subsection 7(a), within the paragraph numbered (3), after 
the phrase "Ninety-fifth C^bngress", insert the phrase "or, in the 
case of national recreation areas, prior to the convening of the 
Ninety-sixth Congress"; and 
(2) in subsection 7(c), change "expire ten years from the date of 
enactment of the authorizing legislation establishing such 
boundaries;" to "apply only to those boundaries established 
subsequent to January 1,1965;". 
Mar. 10, 1980 
[S. 1850] 
Hot Springs, 
Ark. 
Land 
conveyance. 
16 use 460/-9. 
94 STAT. 82 
PUBLIC LAW 96-203—MAR. 10, 1980 
National 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by 
Muse^unT 
donation, or by purchase with donated or appropriated funds, a 
whaling' 
Suitable collection of whaling artifacts and associated items for 
artifacts, 
preservation and display at the National Maritime Museum located 
A^^ro^ nation 
^^ ^^® Golden Gate National Recreation Area. There are authorized 
aut?ujnzatiOTi! 
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this section, but not to exceed $3,000,000 for the 
purchase of said collection, which sums may be appropriated from the 
amounts previously authorized for development purposes at said 
recreation area. 
Approved March 10, 1980. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 96-783 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 96-473 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: 
Vol. 125 (1979): Dec. 18, considered and passed Senate. 
Vol. 126 (1980): Feb. 25, considered and passed House, amended. 
Feb. 26, Senate concurred in House amendments.