An Act to exclude deposits of petrified wood from appropriation under the US mining laws
PL 87-713 (H.R.10540), enacted 09/28/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 8T.713-SEPT. 28, 1%2 
[76 STAT. 
Admini stration. 
16 use 1. 
Roadways. 
Gunnery or 
bombing ranges. 
Appropriation. 
additional rights of occupation or use of the surface for the purposes 
aforesaid upon the terms and under such regulations as may be 
prescribed by him. 
SEC. 5. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the property ac-
quired by the Secretary under this Act shall be administered by the 
Secretary, sub,ject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to 
establish a National Park Sei'vice and for other purposes", approved 
August 25,1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supplemented, and in 
accordance with other laws of general application relating to the areas 
administered and supervised by the Secretary through the National 
Park Service; except that authority otherwise available to the Secre-
tary for the conservation and management of natural resources may 
be utilized to the extent he finds such authority will further the pur-
poses of this Act. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary may provide for roadways from the north 
and south boundaries or such public recreation area to the access high-
ways from the mainland to Padre Island. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior shall enter into such adminis-
trative agreements with the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of 
the Navy may deem necessary to assure that the Secretary of the In-
terior will not exercise any authority granted by this Act so as to in-
terfere with the use by the Department of the Navy of any aerial 
gunnery or bombing range located in the vicinity of Padre Island. 
SEC. 8. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act; except that no 
more than $5,000,000 shall be appropriated for the acquisition of land 
and waters and improvements thereon, and interests therein, and 
incidental costs relating thereto, in accordance with the provisions of 
this Act. 
Approved September 28, 1962, 12:40 p.m. 
Public Law 87-713 
September 28, 1962 
A N A C T 
[H.R. 10540] 
rj<Q exclude deposits of petrified wood from appropriation under the United States 
mining laws. 
Petrified wood. 
Sale. 
Definition. 
Be ft enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3 of the 
Act of July 23,1955 (69 Stat. 368; 30 U.S.C. 611), is amended to read: 
"No deposit of common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, 
pumicite, or cinders and no deposit of petrified wood shall be deemed 
a valuable mineral deposit within the meaning of the mining laws of 
the United States so as to give effective validity to any mining claim 
hereafter located under such mining laws: Provided, however, That 
nothing herein shall affect the validity of any mining location based 
upon discovery of some other mineral occurring in or in association 
Avith such a deposit. 
'Common varieties' as used in this Act does not 
include deposits of such materials which are valuable because the 
deposit lias some property giving it distinct and special value and 
does not include so-called 'block pumice' which occurs in nature in 
])ieces having one dimension of two inches or more. 'Petrified wood* 
as used in this Act means agatized, opalized, petrified, or silicified 
wood, or any material formed by the replacement of wood by silica or 
other matter." 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall provide by regulation 
that limited quantities of petrified wood may be removed without 
charge from those public lands which he shall specify. 
Approved September 28, 1962.