An Act to add certain lands located in Idaho to the Boise and Payette National Forests
PL 86-92 (H.R.2497), enacted 07/17/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-92-JULY 17, 1959 
[73 STAT. 
Public Law 86-92 
July 17, 1959 
"^^ ACT 
[H. R. 2497] 
To add certain lands located in Idaho to the Boise and Payette National Forests. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
etfe°Nationai Fo^ Z7m^e<f States of America in Congress ossemMed, That the exterior 
ests', Idaho." 
'' boundaries of the Boise National Forest, located in the State of 
la^s.'^ i t i o n o
f i(jaho, are hereby extended to include the following described lands: 
Lots 4, 5, 6, and 7 of section 6; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, the east half of the 
northwest quarter, and the east half of the southwest quarter of section 
7; the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, the south half of 
the southwest quarter, the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter 
of section 17; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, the northwest quarter of the northeast 
quarter, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the east half 
of the northwest quarter, the northeast quarter of the southwest quar-
ter, the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the southeast 
quarter of section 18; the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, 
the south half of the northeast quarter, the north half of the north-
west quarter, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, the 
southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, the west half of the south-
west quarter, the east half of the southwest quarter, the northeast 
quarter of the southeast quarter, the northwest quarter of the south-
east quarter, the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the 
southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 20; the north-
west quarter of the southwest quarter, and the south half of the 
southwest quarter of section 21; the southwest quarter of the northeast 
quarter, the northwest quarter, the west half of the southwest quarter, 
the east half of the southwest quarter, the northeast quarter of the 
southeast quarter, the west half of the southeast quarter, and the 
southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 28; the northeast 
quarter, the west half, the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, 
the west half of the southeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of 
the southeast quarter of section 33; and the west half of the southwest 
quarter of section 34, all in township 14 north, range 3 east of the 
Boise meridian, in Valley County, State of Idaho. 
Lots 3 and 4 of section 31 in township 15 north, range 3 east of the 
Boise meridian, in Valley County, State of Idaho. 
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^^^- ^- '^^® exterior boundaries of the Payette National Forest, 
located in the State of Idaho, are hereby extended to include the 
following described lands: 
The east half of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, 
the east half of the west half of the southeast quarter of the south-
west quarter, the west half of the west half of the southeast quarter 
of the southwest quarter, and lots 13 and 14 of section 18; lots 2, 
3, 4, 5, 8, 9j 10, and 11, the east half of the east half of the northeast 
quarter of the northwest quarter, the west half of the northeast 
quarter of the northwest quarter, the west half of the east half of 
the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, the southeast quarter 
of the northwest quarter, the east half of the southwest quarter, the 
northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, 
the west half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the 
southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, 
and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 19; lots 
3 and 4 of section 20; and lot 1, the northeast quarter of the northeast 
quarter, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and the north-
east quarter of the northwest quarter of section 30, all in township 
16 north, range 3 east of the Boise meridian, in Valley County, State 
of Idaho. 
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SEC. 3. Lots 1, 5, and 6 of section 1 in township 14 north, range 
2 east of the Boise meridian within the boundaries of the Boise Na-
tional Forest, in Valley County, State of Idaho, and all of those 
lands described in sections 1 and 2 hereof owned by the United States 
are hereby, and any of said lands hereafter acquired by the United 
States in connection with the Cascade Keservoir reclamation project 
shall be, added to and made parts of the respective national forests 
and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to 
lands acquired pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), 
'^ use 551.562. 
as amended. 
SEC. 4. (a) It is hereby declared that the sole purpose of sections 
Restriction. 
1, 2, and 3 of this Act is to subject the lands referred to therein to 
laws and regulations applicable to national forests, and nothing in 
this Act shall be construed to authorize the United States to acquire 
any additional lands or any interest therein, nor to diminish or in 
anywise affect any valid rights in or to, or in connection with, any 
such lands which may be in existence on the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
(b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall make available, from the voh-^pro^lct.^^^*'' 
lands referred to in the foregoing sections of this Act, to the Bureau 
of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, such lands as the 
Secretary of the Interior finds are needed in connection with the Cas-
cade Reservoir reclamation project, 
(c) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into such 
Agreements. 
agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to the 
relative responsibilities of the aforesaid Secretaries for the administra-
tion of, as well as accountings for and use of revenues arising from, 
lands made available to the Bureau of Reclamation of the Depart-
ment of the Interior pursuant to subsection (b) as the Secretary of 
the Interior finds to be proper in carrying out the purpose of this Act. 
SEC. 5. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare lists of lands 
Excess unds. 
acquired for the Cascade Reservoir reclamation project which are 
not described in sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act and which, in his 
judgment, are excess to the needs of the project. The lands so listed 
shall be divided into two classes: those which are now or are likely, 
within ten years, to become chiefly valuable as home, cabin, recreation, 
or business sites (hereinafter referred to as class A lands), and all 
other lands (hereinafter referred to as class B lands). Lands of either 
class shall hereafter be sold or exchanged only in accordance with the 
provisions of this section. 
(b) The Secretary may exchange lands of either class for non-
Federal lands of not less than approximately equal value situated 
within three hundred feet of the shoreline established by the normal 
water surface elevation of four thousand eight hundred and twenty-
eight feet of the Cascade Reservoir and outside the exterior bound-
aries of the Boise and Payette National Forests as extended by this 
Act. 
(c) The Secretary may sell by competitive bidding, at not less ^^^^ °' lands. 
than their appraised fair market value, lands of either class. Class 
A lands shall be sold in tracts of not more than five acres, with such 
reservations or dedications to public use of rights-of-way for roads, 
streets and public utilities and upon such terms and conditions as he 
may deem appropriate. 
The former owner of lands so offered for 
sale' shall have a personal nontransferable preference right to re-
acquire, within thirty days after the highest bid is declared, any class 
B lands which were formerly owned by him and one tract of class 
A lands which were formerly owned by him at, in either case, a price 
equal to the highest bid received for such lands. But in no case shall Limitation. 
the former owner be required to pay more than three times the ap-
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Definitions. 
praised fair market value of the lands. Where the ownership of lands 
at the time of their acquisition by the Government was in more than 
one person, and two or more such former owners assert a preference 
right for the same tract, the preference right applicants shall be given 
a period of thirty days in which to file a joint purchase application 
or otherwise to compose their conflict. If'they fail to do so, the Sec-
retary shall determine the order of preference among them by lot. 
Any lands remaining unsold after competitive bids have been solicited 
may be sold by the Secretary in such manner as he shall deem proper 
but at not less than their appraised fair market value. The Secre-
tary may at any time withdraw from sale any unsold lands and reoffer 
them at a reappraised fair market value. 
(d) As used in this section, the term "lands" includes interests in 
land, and the term "former owner" includes the surviving spouse 
of a deceased former owner. 
Approved July 17, 1959. 
July 17, 1959 
[S. 42] 
Public Law 86-93 
AN ACT 
To authorize the utilization of a limited amount of storage space in Table Rock 
Reservoir for the purpose of water supply for a fish hatchery. 
Table Rock Res-
ervoir pro j e ct. 
Storage space. 
55 Stat. 638. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled^ That the Table Rock 
Reservoir project, White River, Missouri, approved by the Flood Con-
trol Act approved August 18, 1941, be hereby modified to authorize 
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
to make available a maximum of twenty-seven thousand acre-feet of 
storage space in the reservoir to provide a regulated flow not to exceed 
twenty-two cubic feet per second for operation by the State of Missouri 
of a fish hatchery without reimbursement on such terms and conditions 
as the Secretary of the Army may deem reasonable: Provided^ That 
iiotliing herein contained shall affect water rights under State law. 
Approved July 17, 1959. 
July 17, 1959 
[S. 1904] 
Public Law 86-94 
AN ACT 
To authorize the use of funds arising from a judgment in favor of the Citizen 
Band of Potawatomi Indians of Oklahoma, and the Prairie Band of Pota-
watomi Indians of Kansas, and for other purposes. 
Potawatomi 
dians. 
Use of funds. 
In-
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the funds on 
deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Citizen 
Band of Potawatomi Indians of Oklahoma and to the credit of the 
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians of Kansas that were appropri-
ated to pay a judgment by the Indian Claims Commission for inade-
quate compensation for lands ceded under the treaties of November 
15, 1861 (12 Stat. 1191), and February 27, 1867 (15 Stat. 531), and 
the Act of July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. 489), and the interest thereon, may 
be advanced or expended for any purpose that is authorized by the 
respective tribal governing bodies and approved by the Secretary of 
the Interior. 
Any part of such funds that may be distributed per 
capita to the members of the bands shall not be subject to Federal or 
State income tax. 
Approved July 17, 1959.