An Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reconvey certain property which the city of Boulder, Colo., donated to the Secretary of Commerce for the establishment of a radio propagation laboratory
PL 83-341 (H.R.7380), enacted 04/22/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 341-APR. 22, 1954 
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"(3) Any numbered mineral section which is surveyed on or after 
the date of the enactment of this subsection, and on which there is 
outstanding at the time of such survey a lease or leases entered into 
by the United States, shall (unless excluded from the provisions of 
this section by subsection (c) for a reason other than the existence 
of an outstanding lease) be granted to the State concerned immedi-
ately upon completion of such survey; and the State shall succeed to 
the position of the United States as lessor under such lease or leases. 
"(4) The Secretary of the Interior shall, upon application by a 
State, issue patents to the State for the lands granted by this Act, 
in accordance with the Act of June 12,1934 (48 Stat. 1185,43 U. S. C. 
sec. 871a). 
Such patent shall include a statement that the State suc-
ceeded to the position of the United States as lessor at the time the 
title vested in the State. 
"(5) Where, at the time rents, royalties, and bonuses accrue, the 
lands or deposits covered by a single lease are owned in part by the 
State and in part by the United States, the rents, royalties, and 
bonuses shall be allocated between them in proportion to the acreage 
in said lease owned by each." 
SEC. 2. Subsection (c) of such Act, as amended, is amended by 
striking out "That" and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"Except as provided jn subsection (d),". 
Approved April 22, 1954. 
April 22, 1954 
[H. R. 7380] 
Public Law 341 
CHAPTER 170 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reconvey certain property which the 
city of Boulder, Colorado, donated to the Secretary of Commerce for the 
establishment of a radio propagation laboratory. 
Boiilder, Colo. 
Reconveyance. 
15 u s e 2 72 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hovt^ne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any other law to 
the contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized 
to reconvey, without compensation in such manner and on such other 
terms and conditions as he deems to be hi the best interests of the United 
States, to the city of Boulder, Colorado, two acres of land more or less, 
consisting of a portion of a tract of some two hundred and ten acres of 
land in Boulder County, Colorado, which tract was conveyed without 
compensation to the United States Government represented by the 
Secretary of Commerce, as a site for a radio laboratory under authority 
of Public Law 366, Eighty-first Congress, approved October 25, 1949 
(63 Stat. 886), the said land reconveyed to be used by the city of 
Boulder, Colorado, as part of a site for a water reservoir. 
Approved April 22, 1954. 
April 22,1954 
[S. J . R e s . 146] 
Public Law 342 
CHAPTER 171 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the designation of October 16, 1954, as National Olympic Day. 
Whereas the XVIth Olympic Games of the modern era will be held 
in Melbourne, Australia, November 22 to December 8, 1956, with 
Winter Games to be held at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, January 26 
to February 5, 1956; and 
Whereas the Pan American Games will be held in Mexico City in 
March 1955; and