An Act granting to the Las Vegas Valley water district, a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, certain public lands of the United States in the State of Nevada
PL 83-666 (S.3302), enacted 08/27/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 666-AUG- 27, 1954 
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60 Stat. 755. 
of such provision to other circumstances or persons shall not be affected 
thereby. 
(b) Nothing in this Act shall alter, amend, revoke, repeal, or other-
wise affect the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as 
amended (42 U. S. C. 1801), 
(c) Nothing in this Act is intended nor shall it be construed as an 
expressed or implied commitment to provide any specific assistance, 
whether of funds, commodities, or services, to any nation or nations, 
or to any international organization. 
SEC. 547. 
REDUCTION OF AUTHORIZATIONS.—Notwithstanding the 
foregoing provisions of this Act, such provisions shall not be construed 
to authorize the appropriation for the fiscal year 1955, for the pur-
poses of titles I, II, and IV of this Act, of amounts (exclusive of unex-
pended balances of prior appropriations authorized to be con-
tinued available under such provisions) aggregating in excess of 
$2,918,040,000. 
Approved August 26, 1954. 
August 27, 1954 
[S. 3302] 
Public Law 666 
CHAPTER 1004 
AN ACT 
Granting to the Las Vegas Valley water district, a public corporation organized 
under the laws of the State of Nevada, certain public lands of the United 
States in the State of Nevada. 
Las Vegas Val-
ley water district, 
Nev. 
Land grant. 
Reservation 
minerals. 
of 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That there is hereby 
granted to the Las Vegas Valley water district, a public corporation 
organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, all lands belonging to 
the United States situated in Clark County, State of Nevada, which 
may be necessary, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, for the 
construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities for the develop-
ment, production, storage, transmission, and distribution of water, 
including any or all of the following purposes only to the extent re-
quired for such development, production, storage, transmission, and 
distribution of water: 
Eights-of-way; buildings and structures; construction and main-
tenance camps; dumping grounds, flowage, diverting, or storage dams; 
pumping plants; canals, ditches, pipes, pipelines, flumes, tunnels, and 
conduits for conveying water for domestic, irrigation, household, stock, 
municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other useful purposes; 
poles, towers, underground conduits, lines, and equipment for the con-
veyance and distribution of electrical energy; poles, underground con-
duits, and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes; roads, trails, 
bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, trans-
mission, or communication; for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and 
other materials of like character; or any other necessary purposes of 
said grantee, together with the right to take for its own use, from any 
public lands, within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may 
determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like char-
acter necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and mainte-
nance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric trans-
mission, telephone, and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tram-
ways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and com-
munication, or any other necessary purposes of said grantee. 
That there is hereby excepted and reserved unto the United States, 
from said grant, minerals, other than sand, stone, earth, gravel, and 
other materials of like character: Provided^ however^ That such 
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minerals so excepted and reserved shall be prospected for, mined, and 
removed only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Interior. 
This grant shall be effective upon (1) the filing by said grantee at 
any time after the passage of this Act, with the manager of the United 
States local land oflSce in the district where said lands are situated, 
of a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of 
said lands and of said rights-of-way for the purposes hereinabove set 
forth; (2) the approval of such map or maps by the Secretary of the 
Interior with such reservations or modifications as he may deem 
appropriate; (3) the payment of a price representing the fair mar-
ket value for said rights-of-way and other lands, and also for stone, 
earth, sand, gravel and other materials of like character, to be fixed 
by the Secretary of the Interior through appraisal, exclusive of any 
increased value resulting from the development or improvement of 
the lands by the grantee or its predecessors, or a reasonable rental, as 
the case may be: Provided, That said lands for rights-of-way shall 
be along such location and of such width, not to exceed two hundred 
and fiftj feet, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may 
be required for the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 2. Said grants are to be made subject to rights-of-way, ease-
ments, and permits heretofore granted or allowed to any person or 
corporation in accordance with any Act or Acts of Congress and sub-
ject to the rights of all claimants or persons who shall have filed or 
made valid claims, locations, or entries on or to said lands, or any part 
thereof prior to the effective date of any conflicting grant hereunder, 
unless prior to such effective date proper relinquishments or quit-
claims have been procured and caused to be filed in the proper land 
office. 
SEO. 3. That, whenever the land granted herein shall cease to be 
used for the purposes for which it is granted, the estate of the grantee 
or of its assigns shall terminate and revest in the United States. 
Approved August 27, 1954. 
Public Law 667 
CHAPTER 1005 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To extend greetings to the Gold Coast and Nigeria. 
August 27, 1954 
[S.J. Res. 183] 
Whereas it is the policy of the United States to encourage efforts 
toward independence and self-government truly expressive of the 
desires of the people and as they show their capability to establish 
and protect free institutions; and 
Whereas the continent of Africa is a vital part of the free world 
area; and 
Whereas a revised constitution of the Gold Coast was approved 
on April 29, 1954, and the first formal meeting of the legislature 
of that territory under this constitution will take place on July 
29, 1954; and 
Whereas a revised constitution of Nigeria is expected to be approved 
during August 1954, and the first meeting of the federal legislature 
of that territory under this constitution is expected to take place 
shortly thereafter; and 
Whereas these occasions mark important milestones in their progress 
toward self-government and independence: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress of the 
United States extend its most cordial greetings to the representative 
Gold Coast a n d 
Nigeria. 
C o n g r e s sional 
greetings. 
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