A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey, without consideration, to the Sabine River Authority of Texas approximately 34,000 acres of land within the Sabine National Forest, Texas, to be used for the purposes of the Toledo Bend Project, Louisiana and Texas.
PL 98-571 (H.R.3150), enacted 10/30/1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-571—OCT. 30, 1984 
98 STAT. 2943 
Public Law 98-571 
98th Congress 
An Act 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey, for certain specified consideration, 
to the Sabine River Authority approximately thirty-one thousand acres of land 
within the Sabine National Forest to be used for the purposes of the Toledo Bend 
project, Louisiana and Texas, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. Not later than one hundred and eighty days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
convey, in exchange for the land and other consideration specified in 
section 2, to the Sabine River Authority of Texas lands owned by the 
United States in the Sabine National Forest in and adjacent to the 
Toledo Bend Reservoir, located in Louisiana and Texas, as generally 
depicted on a map dated August 1984 on file in the office of the 
Chief, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, as 
follows: 
(a) approximately thirty-one thousand acres of such lands 
which are inundated and below an elevation of one hundred and 
seventy-two feet mean sea level; 
(b) that portion of Recreational Site No. 5 consisting of ap-
proximately eleven acres of such lands, not subject to inunda-
tion, which are heavily developed for recreational use and lie 
above one hundred and seventy-five feet mean sea level; and 
(c) approximately one hundred and seven acres of such lands 
in the flood plain which are at an elevation of one hundred and 
seventy-two feet mean sea level or higher but not higher than 
one hundred and seventy-five feet mean sea level and which 
after the conveyance of lands described in clauses (a) and (b) of 
this section would no longer be immediately adjacent to land 
owned by the United States in the Sabine National Forest. 
SEC. 2. In exchange for the conveyance of those lands described in 
section 1, the Sabine River Authority of Texas shall (a) convey, by 
quitclaim deed, to the United States those lands in the flood plain 
comprising approximately five hundred and eighty-six acres, as 
generally depicted on a map dated August 1984 on file in the office 
of the Chief, Forest Service, United States Department of Agricul-
ture, which are at an elevation of one hundred and seventy-two feet 
mean sea level or higher but not higher than one hundred and 
seventy-five feet mean sea level and which lie on the shoreline of the 
Toledo Bend Reservoir and are immediately adjacent to land owned 
by the United States in the Sabine National Forest and (b) deposit 
with the Secretary the sum of $650,000. 
Oct. 30, 1984 
[H.R. 3150] 
Public lands. 
National Forest 
System. 
98 STAT. 2944 
PUBLIC LAW 98-571—OCT. 30, 1984 
Petroleum and 
SEC. 3. In the deed of exchange for the lands described in section 1, 
petroleum 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey all right, title, and interest 
products. 
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Q g^jjjj lands except that the Secretary shall reserve for the United 
States any subsurface rights that it owns, including, but not limited 
to, oil and gas, and shall provide that title in the lands described in 
section 1(a) shall revest in the United States upon failure by the 
Sabine River Authority of Texas to use the lands for project pur-
poses. Any lands so revested in the United States shall be included 
in and shall resume their previous status as National Forest System 
lands. 
SEC. 4. (a) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall waive 
the charges required to be paid under section 10(e) of the Federal 
Power Act (16 U.S.C. 803(e)) for the use of any interest of the United 
States in lands described in section 1 which are part of the Toledo 
Bend Project (Federal Energy Commission licensed Project No. 2305) 
if, after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission 
determines (pursuant to section 24 of the Federal Power Act (16 
U.S.C. 818)) that— 
(1) such interest in lands will be conveyed pursuant to this 
Act by the United States directly to the licensee for that project 
(subject to any restrictions and reservations established by the 
Commission pursuant to such section 24), 
(2) the Federal agency conveying such interest in lands has 
notified the Commission that, upon such conveyance, the 
United States will have received the fair market value estab-
lished by section 2 for such conveyance, and 
(3) such fair market value includes the full value of the 
waiver authorized under this section during the remaining term 
of the license, as determined by the Commission after taking 
into account prior determinations by the Commission pursuant 
to Opinion No. 78 of the Commission dated March 18,1980, that 
the payment of such license fees are subject to annual waiver 
pursuant to the second proviso of such section 10(e) to the extent 
that power generated, transmitted, or distributed by the project 
is sold to the public without profit and any such similar waivers 
reasonably anticipated by the Commission during such remain-
ing term. 
(b) If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission does not deter-
mine, under subsection (a)(3), that the fair market value established 
in section 2 includes the full value of the waiver authorized under 
subsection (aX3), conveyances otherwise required in sections 1 and 2 
of this Act shall not be made. 
PUBLIC LAW 98-571—OCT. 30, 1984 
98 STAT. 2945 
SEC. 5. The exchange provided for under this Act shall be consid-
ered an exchange under the Act of December 4, 1967, as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 484a), notwithstanding the acreages involved, and the 
sums deposited with the Secretary of Agriculture under section 2 
shall be handled in the same manner as sums deposited with the 
Secretary under that Act. 
Approved October 30, 1984. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3150: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 130 (1984): 
Oct. 2, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 10, considered and passed Senate.