An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant long-term leases with respect to lands in the El Portal administrative site adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Calif., and for other purposes
PL 90-409 (H.R.4739), enacted 07/21/1968

82 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-410-JULY 21, 1%8 
393 
supervision incident to construction. That authority may be exercised 
before title to the hxnd is approved under section 355 of the Revised 
Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. 255), and even though the land is 
held temporarily. The authority to acquire real estate or land includes 
authority to make surveys and' to acquire land, and interests in land 
(including temporary use), by gift, purchase, exchange of Govern-
ment-owned land, or otherwise. 
SEC. 903. This title may be cited as the "Reserve Forces Facilities 
Authorization Act, 1969". 
Approved July 21, 1968. 
Citation of title. 
Public Law 90-409 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant long-term leases with respect 
to lands in the El Portal administrative site adjacent to Yosemite Na-
tional Park, California, and for other purposes. 
July 21, 1968 
[H. R. 4739] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in further-
ance of the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to provide an administrative site for 
Yosemite National Park, California, on lands adjacent to the park, 
and for other purposes," apj)roved September 2,1958 (72 Stat. 1772), 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, to lease lands within the El Portal adminis-
trative site for periods of fifty-five years to any operator of con-
cession facilities in the park, or its successor, for purposes of 
providing employee housing. Such leases shall provide that the con-
cessioner may sublease the property to its employees for terms not 
to exceed the remaining terms of such leases, and they shall be sub-
ject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior 
may require to assure appropriate administration, protection, and 
development of the land for purposes incident to the provisions of 
facilities and services required in the operation and administration 
of the park: Provided^ That the Secretary of the Interior shall grant 
such leases in consideration of an annual payment to the United 
States of the fair rental value of the leased lands, as determined by 
him at the beginning of each calendar year. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior may enter into agreements 
with other Federal agencies and with any concessioner or its suc-
cessor in order to effectuate the purposes of this Act. 
Approved July 21, 1968. 
El Portal site, 
Calif. 
Long-term 
lease. 
16 u s e 47-1. 
Annual pay• 
ment. 
Public Law 90-410 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States 
-conditions in deeds conveying certain lands to the State of Iowa, and for 
other purposes. 
July 21, 1968 
[H. R. 16065] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amei'ica in Congress asseinhled^ That, notwith-
standing the provisions of subsection (c) of section 32 of the Bank-
Jiead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1011(c)), the 
Iowa State Uni-
versity. 
Land convey-
ance. 
50 Stat. 526. 
394 
PUBLIC LAW 90-410-JULY 21, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
Conditions. 
Mineral in-
terests. 
Nonrefundable 
deposit. 
"Administrative 
costs." 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to release on 
behalf of the United States with respect to lands designated pursuant 
to seotion 2 hereof, the conditions in those two deeds dated July 29, 
1955, conveying lands in the counties of Monroe and Decatur in the 
State of Iowa to the State of Iowa acting by and through its State 
board of regents for the use and benefit of the agricultural experi-
ment station of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts, now Iowa State University, which require that the lands so 
conveyed be used for public purposes and provide for a reversion 
of such lands to the United States if at any time they cease to be 
so used. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary shall release the conditions referred to in 
the first seotion of this Act only with respect to lands covered by 
and described in an agreement or agreements entered into between 
the Secretary and the university in which the university, in considera-
tion of the release of such conditions as to such lands, agrees— 
(1) that all the proceeds from the sale, lease, exchange, or 
disposition of such lands shall be used by the university for 
the acquisition of lands to be held for university purposes, or 
for the development or improvement of any lands so acquired; 
(2) that all the proceeds from the sale, lease, or other dis-
position of lands covered by any such agreement shall be main-
tained by the university in a separate fund and that the record 
of all transactions involving such funds shall be open to inspec-
tion by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
SEC. 3. Upon application, all the undivided mineral interests of 
the United States in any parcel or tract of land released pui-suant 
to this Act from the conditions as to such lands shall be convejred 
to the State of Iowa for the use and benefit of Iowa State University 
or its successors in title by the Secretary of the Interior. In areas 
where the Secretary of the Interior determines that there is no active 
mineral development or leasing, and that the lands have no mineral 
value, the mineral interests covered by a single application shall be 
sold for a consideration of $1. In other areas the mineral interests 
shall be sold at the fair market value thereof as determined by the 
Secretary of the Interior after taking into consideration such ap-
praisals as he deems necessary or appropriate. 
SEC. 4. Each application made under the provisions of section 3 
of this Act shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable deposit to 
be applied to the administrative costs as fixed by the Secretary of 
the Interior. If the conveyance is made, the applicant shall pay to 
the Secretary of the Interior the full administrative costs, less the 
deposit. If a conveyance is not made pursuant to an application 
filed under this Act, the deposit shall constitute full sa/tisfaction of 
such administrative costs notwithstanding that the administrative 
costs exceed the deposit. 
SEC. 5. The term "administrative costs" as used in this Act in-
cludes, in addition to other items, all costs which the Secretary of 
the Interior determines are included in a determination of (1) the 
mineral character of the land in question, and (2) the fair market 
, value of the mineral interest. 
SEC. 6. Amounts paid to the Secretary of the Interior under the 
provisions of this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United 
States as miscellaneous receipts. 
Approved July 21, 1968.