An Act to change the name of Gavins Point Reservoir back of Gavins Point Dam to Lewis and Clark Lake
PL 83-710 (S.3744), enacted 08/30/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 7 1 0 - A U G . 30, 1954 
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described lands within the boundaries of Camp Roberts Military 
Reservation, California, as the Secretary of the Army, or his designee, 
and the Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation 
District shall determine to be necessary as a dam site and reservoir 
area for the El Nacimiento project: 
The east half of the southeast quarter of section 11; the southwest 
quarter of section 12; the west half of section 13; and the east half 
of the east half of section 14, all lying in township 25 south, range 10 
east. Mount Diablo base meridian. 
(b) The deed conveying the lands determined to be necessary for 
the dam site and reservoir area for the El Nacimiento project shall 
provide (1) for the reservation by the United States of all mineral 
rights, including oil and gas, in and underlying the lands conveyed, 
(2) that the lands conveyed shall be used solely for the purpose of 
constructing, maintaining, and operating a dam and reservoir project 
thereon, and in the event such dam has not been constructed thereon 
within ten years after the enactment of this Act, or in the event the 
lands conveyed shall at any time after construction of the dam cease 
to be used for the sole purpose of maintaining and operating a dam and 
reservoir thereon, all right, title, and interest in and to such lands shall 
revert to the United States, (3) that in the event the existing water sup-
ply at Camp Roberts shall be diminished or adversely affected in any 
manner by the construction, operation, and maintenance of the dam 
and reservoir project, the grantee, its successors, and assigns, shall 
provide to the United States without additional cost substitute or 
supplementary water supply necessary to equal the existing supply at 
Camp Roberts, (4) the Armed Forces of the United States shall be 
granted for recreational and training purposes the use of the lands 
conveyed, to the extent that such use does not adversely affect the 
operation and maintenance of the dam and reservoir, and the use of 
the remaining portion of the reservoir area, to the extent provided in 
the regulations of the Monterey County Flood Control and Water 
Conservation District generally applicable to the reservoir area, and 
(5) the grantee shall remove, relocate, and reconstruct, at its own cost 
and expense all structures, roads, and fences at Camp Roberts affected 
by the proposed conveyance. 
SEO. 2. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to issue to the 
License. 
Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, 
without compensation therefor, and on such terms and conditions as 
he deems appropriate, a license to use and occupy any lands in the 
area described in Section 1 not conveyed pursuant to the authoriza-
tion contained therein, as may be required for the excavation of bor-
row materials and any other purposes related to the construction of 
the El Nacimiento project. 
SEC. 3. The conveyance herein authorized shall be made for a mone-
tary consideration determined by the Secretary of the Army or his 
autnorized representative, after appraisal, to represent the appraised 
fair market value of the estate conveyed. 
Approved August 30, 1954. 
Public Law 710 
CHAPTER 1080 
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August 30, 1954 
To change the name of Gavins Point Reservoir back of Gavins Point Dam to 
[s.3744] 
Lewis and Clark Lake. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That the Gavins rh^"^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 
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PUBLIC LAW 711-AUG. 30, 1954 
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TAT. 
Point Reservoir back of Gavins Point Dam, which is located on the 
Missouri River near Yankton, South Dakota, shall hereafter be 
known as Lewis and Clark Lake and any law, regulation, document, 
or record of the United States in which such reservoir is designated 
or referred to under the name of Gavins Point Reservoir shall be 
held to refer to such body of water under and by the name of Lewis 
and Clark Lake. 
Approved August 30,'1954. 
Public Law 711 
CHAPTER 1081 
August 30, 1954 
[S. 3595] 
Port Bliss Mili-
tary 
Reservation, 
Tex. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
R e s e r v a t i o n s 
and conditions. 
S-TM^J 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in El 
Paso, Texas, and described as part of Fort Bliss, to the State of Texas. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Afnerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and inter-
est of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in and to a 
parcel of land within Fort Bliss Military Reservation, such parcel 
consisting of a portion of North El Paso Addition and a portion of 
Morningside Heights Addition, El Paso, Texas, and being more par-
ticularly described by metes and bounds as follows: 
Beginning at a point which is the intersection of the east right-of-
way line of Pollard Street and the south right-of-way line of Hayes 
Avenue; thence south no degrees fourteen and ninety one-hundredths 
minutes west along the east right-of-way line of Pollard Street, a dis-
tance of nine hundred two and six-tenths feet; thence south eighty-
nine degrees forty-five and ten one-hundredths minutes east a distance 
of one thousand forty-two and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet to 
the west right-of-way line of the Southern Pacific Railroad (formerly 
the E. P. & S. W. R. R.); thence north thirteen degrees forty-five and 
two one-hundredths minutes east a distance of eight hundred forty-five 
and seventy-three one-hundredths feet along the Southern Pacific 
Railroad right-of-way line, to a point; thence north one degree fifteen 
and sixty-two one-hundredths minutes west a distance of one hundred 
twelve and five one-hundredths feet, to a point in the south right-of-
way line of Hayes Avenue; thence south eighty-eight degrees forty-
six minutes west a distance of one thousand two hundred thirty-seven 
and three-tenths feet along the south right-of-way line of Hayes Ave-
nue, to the point of beginning, containing in all twenty-four and 
twenty-five one-hundredths acres of land, more or less. 
SEO. 2. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands 
authorized to be conveyed oy this Act shall be reserved to the United 
States. 
SEC. 3. There shall be further reserved to the United States in the 
conveyance of the above-described lands, rights of ingress and egress 
over roads in the above-described lands serving buildings or other 
works operated by the United States or its successors or assigns in 
connection with Fort Bliss, rights-of-way for water lines, sewer lines, 
telephone and telegraph lines, power lines, and such other utilities 
which now exist, or which may become necessary to the operation of 
the said Fort Bliss. 
SEC. 4. The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act 
shall be upon condition that such property shall be used primarily 
for training of the National Guard and for other military purposes, 
and that if the State of Texas shall cease to use the property so con-
veyed for the purposes intended, then title thereto shall immediately