An Act to transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission complete administrative control of approximately 78 acres of public domain land located in the Otowi Section near Los Alamos County
PL 89-693 (H.R.16813), enacted 10/15/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-693-OCT. 15, 1966 
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STAT. 
October 15, 1966 
[H.R. 16813] 
Public Law 89-693 
AN ACT 
To transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission complete administrative control of 
approximately seventy-eight acres of public domain land located in the Otowi 
section near Los Alamos County. 
Atomic Energy 
Commission, 
Land acquisi-
tion in N. Mex. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That all land and 
interests in land owned by the United States within the boundaries 
described below and located in the county of Santa Fe, State of New 
Mexico, containing approximately seventy-eight acres, are hereby 
transferred, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, to the Atomic 
Energy Commission. 
The Atomic Energy Commission shall exercise 
administrative control over all land and interests in land transferred to 
the Atomic Energy Commission by this Act, notwithstanding the man-
ner of their acquisition by the United States or their status at any time 
prior to the effective date of this Act. 
A certain tract of land situated in sections 7 and 18, tow^nship 19 
north, range 7 east. New Mexico principal meridian, Santa Fe County, 
New Mexico, which tract is described as follows: 
Beginning at the northwest corner of the parcel herein de-
scribed, said northwest corner being a point on the county line 
common to Los Alamos and Sante Fe Counties, New Mexico, 
which is identified as angle point numbered 1, and which has New 
Mexico State plane coordinates X equal to 501,333.75 and Y equal 
to 1,778,638.44; from angle point numbered 1, the westerly section 
corner between section 7 and 18, township 19 north, range 7 east. 
New Mexico principal meridian (U.S.G.L.O. brass cap in place), 
which has New Mexico State plane coordinates X equal to 501,-
202.94 and Y equal to 1,777,592.78, bears south 07 degrees 04 min-
utes 35 seconds west, 1,054.15 feet distance: 
Thence, south 54 degrees 08 minutes 20 seconds east, 1,380.23 
feet distance to angle point numbered 2: thence, south 42 degrees 
29 minutes 43 seconds east, 1,538.98 feet distance to angle point 
numbered 3; 
thence, south 53 degrees 11 minutes 59 seconds w^est, 659.70 feet 
distance to angle point numbered 4; 
thence, south 89 degrees 13 minutes 21 seconds west, 1,179.64 feet 
distance to angle point numbered 5; 
thence, north 86 degrees 48 minutes 43 seconds west, 746.75 feet 
distance to quarter corner section 13, township 19 north, range 6 
east; 
thence, north 07 degrees 27 minutes 15 seconds east, 1,277.64 feet 
distance to the corner between sections 7 and 18 described above; 
thence, north 07 degrees 04 minutes 35 seconds east, 1,054.15 
feet distance to the point of beginning. 
The above-described tract contains 78.1 acres more or less. 
The bearings of the preceding description are based on a local grid 
which conforms to the local grid bearing system used for eastern area 
subdivision numbered 1, filed for record with the clerk of Los Alamos 
County, New Mexico, on April 13, 1965, under document numbered 
3924 in book 1 of plats at page 55. On the local grid north 00 degrees 
00 minutes 00 seconds east is equal to north 00 degrees 01 minutes 36 
seconds east on the New Mexico State plane grid, control zone. 
The 
distance scale factor from the local grid to the New Mexico State plane 
grid is 0.999553. 
Approved October 15, 1966.