An Act to provide for the withdrawal and reservation for the Department of the Navy of certain public lands of the United States at Mojave B Aerial Gunnery Range, San Bernardino County, Calif., for defense purposes
PL 88-161 (H.R.4588), enacted 10/29/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-161-OCT. 29, 1963 
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Agriculture. 
Rice acreage 
allotments. 
Validity. 
Public Law 88-160 
J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N 
October 28, 1963 
Relating to the validity of certain rice acreage allotments for 1962 and prior 
[H. J. Res. 192] 
crop years. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of ATnerioa in Congress assembled, That in a State in which 
farm rice acreage allotments are determined on the basis of past 
production of rice by the producer on the farm, any producer rice 
acreage allotment found by the ASC county committee or the ASC 
State committee to have been properly apportioned from the State 
rice acreage allotment and the acreage allotment for any farm to 
which such producer allotment has been allocated and approved by 
the county committee in good faith for any crop year 1956 to 1962, 
both inclusive, shall be deemed to have been validly established and 
shall remain in effect, and the farm marketing quota and farm mar-
keting excess, if any, shall be determined on the basis of such valid 
farm rice acreage allotment. 
This resolution shall not apply to any producer rice allotment or 
any planted rice acreage that has been obtained by duplication, for-
gery, bribery, intimidation, or practices that would result in the total 
allotted acreage in the State exceeding the State acreage allotment, 
less any unallocated reserve acreage. 
Approved October 28, 1963. 
Public Law 88-161 
AN ACT 
October 29, 1963 
To provide for the withdrawal and reservation for the Department of the 
[H. R. 45 88] 
Navy of certain public lands of the United States at Mojave B Aerial 
Gunnery Range, San Bernardino County, California, for defense purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemMed, That (a) subject 
Mojave B Aeriai 
to valid existing rights the public lands, and the minerals therein, ^'am^"^^ Range, 
within the area described in section 2 of this Act are hereby with- 
PubUc lands, 
drawn from all appropriations and other forms of disposition under withdrawal and 
the public land laws including the mining and mineral leasing laws '•^^^'•^^*^°"-
and disposals of materials under the Act of July 31, 1947, as 
amended (61 Stat. 681; 30 U.S.C. 601-604), except as provided in 
subsection (b) of this section, and reserved for use of the Depart-
ment of the Navy for a period of ten years with an option to 
renew the withdrawal and reservation for a period of five years upon 
notice to the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to the condition 
that part or all of the reservation may be terminated at any time 
by the Secretary of the Navy upon notice to the Secretary of the 
Interior. 
(b) The Secretary of the Interior may, with the concurrence of the 
Secretary of the Navy, authorize use or disposition of any of the land? 
or resources withdrawn and reserved by subsection (a) of this section. 
(c) Upon request of the Secretary of the Interior at the time of 
termination of the reservation effected by this Act as provided in 
subsection (a) of this section, the Department of the Navy shall 
make safe for nonmilitary uses the land withdrawn and reserved or 
such portions thereof as may be specified by the Secretary of the In-
terior, by neutralizing unexploded ammunition, bombs, artillery 
projectiles, or other explosive objects and chemical agents. 
There-
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after, the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to law shall provide for 
the appropriate use or disposition of all or any part of the land with-
drawn and reserved under provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 2. The lands withdrawn and reserved by this Act are those 
that are now or may hereafter become subject to the public land laws 
within the area described as follows: 
Approximately 312,659 acres, more or less, within the Mojave " B " 
Aerial Gunnery Range, San Bernardino County, California, and 
more fully described as follows: 
township 25 south, range 44 east, sections 1 to 4 inclusive, 
sections 9 to 16 inclusive, sections 21 to 28 inclusive, and sections 
33 to 36 inclusive; 
township 26 south, range 44 east, sections 1 to 4 inclusive, 
sections 9 to 16 inclusive, sections 21 to 28 inclusive, and sections 
33 to 36 inclusive; 
township 27 south, range 44 east, sections 1 to 4 inclusive, and 
sections 9 to 12 inclusive; 
township 29 south, range 44 east, sections 1 to 3 inclusive, 
sections 10 to 15 inclusive, sections 22 to 27 inclusive, and sections 
34 to 36 inclusive; 
township 30 south, range 44 east, sections 1 to 3 inclusive, 
sections 10 to 15 inclusive, sections 22 to 27 inclusive, and sections 
34 to 36 inclusive; 
township 25 south, range 45 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 26 south, range 45 easty sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 27 south, range 45 east, sections 1 to 6 inclusive; 
township 28 south, range 45 east, sections 31 to 36 inclusive; 
township 29 south, range 45 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 30 south, range 45 east, sections 1 to 34 inclusive, all 
of section 35 except south half of southwest quarter, and section 
36; 
township 25 south, range 46 east, sections 1 to 35 inclusive, 
and all of section 36 except east half of east half of northeast 
quarter; 
township 26 south, range 46 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 27 south, range 46 east, sections 1 to 6 inclusive; 
township 28 south, range 46 east, sections 25 to 36 inclusive; 
township 29 south, range 46 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 30 south, range 46 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 25 south, range 47 east, sections 5 to 8 inclusive, sec-
tions 17 to 20 inclusive, north half of section 29, north half of 
section 30, south half of section 31, and southwest quarter of 
section 32; 
township 26 south, range 47 east, sections 4 to 9 inclusive, 
sections 16 to 21 inclusive, and sections 28 to 33 inclusive; 
township 28 south, range 47 east, sections 19 to 21 inclusive; 
and sections 28 to 33 inclusive; 
township 29 south, range 47 east, sections 3 to 10 inclusive, 
sections 15 to 22 inclusive, and sections 27 to 34 inclusive; 
township 30 south, range 47 east, sections 3 to 10 inclusive; 
sections 15 to 22 inclusive; and sections 27 to 34 inclusive; Mount 
Diablo meridian. 
Approved October 29, 1963.