An Act to increase the participation by counties in revenues from tlie National Wildlife Refuge System by amending the Act of June 15, 1935, relating to such participation, and for other purposes
PL 88-523 (S.1363), enacted 08/30/1964

78 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-523-AUG. 30, 1964 
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Public Law 88-523 
AN ACT 
August 30, 1964 
To increase the participation by counties in revenues from tlie National Wild- 
Llil£;J 
life Refuge System by amending the Act of June 15, 1935, relating to such 
participation, and for other purposes. 
National Wild-
life Refuge 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseinbled^ That section 401 of 
the Act of June 15, 1^35, as amended (49 Stat. 378, 383; 16 U.S.C. system! 
715s), relating to the participation by the counties in revenues from 
Revenues. 
wildlife refuges, is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 401. (a) Beginning with the next full fiscal year and for each 
fiscal year thereafter, all revenues received by the Secretary of the 
Interior from the sale or other disposition of animals, timber, hay, 
f
rass, or other products of the soil, minerals, shells, sand, or gravel, 
rom other privileges, or from leases for public accommodations or 
facilities incidental to but not in conflict with the basic purposes for 
which those areas of the National Wildlife Refuge System were estab-
lished, during each fiscal year in connection with the operation and 
management of thoFe areas of the National Wildlife Refuge System 
that are solely or primarily administered by him, through the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall be covered into the United 
States Treasury and be reserved in a separate fund for disposition as 
hereafter prescribed. 
Amounts in the fund shall remain available 
until expended, and may be expended by the Secretary without further 
appropriation in the manner hereafter prescribed. 
The National 
Wildlife Refuge System (hereafter referred to as the "System") 
includes those lands and waters administered by the Secretary as wild-
life refuges, wildlife ranges, game ranges, wildlife management areas, 
and waterfowl production areas established under any law, proclama-
tion. Executive, or public land order. 
"(b) The Secretary may pay from the fund any necessary expenses 
incurred by him in connection with the revenue-producing measures 
set forth in subsection (a). 
"(c) The Secretary, at the end of each fiscal year, shall pay, out of 
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counties. 
the net receipts in the fund (after payment of necessary expenses) for 
such fiscal year, which funds shall be expended solely for the benefit of 
public schools and roads as follows: 
"(1) to each county in which reserved public lands in an area 
of the System are situated, an amount equal to 25 per centum of 
the net receipts collected by the Secretary from such reserved 
public lands in that particular area of the System: Provided^ 
That when any such area is situated in more than one county the 
distributive share to each county from the aforesaid receipts shall 
be proportional to its acreage of such public lands therein; and 
"(2) to each county in which areas in the System are situated 
that have been acquired in fee by the United States, either (A) 
three-fourths of 1 per centum of the cost of the areas, exclusive 
of any improvements to such areas made subsequent to Federal 
acquisition, such cost to be adjusted to represent current values 
as determined by the Secretary for the first full fiscal year after 
enactment of this Act and as redetermined by him at five-year 
intervals thereafter, or (B) 25 per centum of the net receipts 
collected by the Secretary from such acquired lands in that par-
ticular area of the System within such counties, whichever is 
greater. 
The determinations by the Secretary under this sub-
section shall be accomplished in such manner as he shall consider 
to be equitable and in the public interest, and his determinations 
hereunder shall be final and conclusive. 
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PUBLIC LAW 88-524-AUG. 31, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
49 Stat. 1555. 
Repeal. 
"(d) The payments under subsection (c) of this section to the 
counties in the United States for any one fiscal year shall not exceed 
the amount of net receipts in the fund for that fiscal year and, in 
case the net receipts are msufRcient for a particular fiscal year to pay 
the aggregate amount of the payments for that fiscal year to the 
counties, the payment to each county shall be reduced proportionately. 
"(e) Any moneys remaining in the fund after all payments are 
made for any fiscal year may be used by the Secretary thereafter 
for management of the System, including but not limited to the 
construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings, roads, 
and other facilities, and for enforcement of the Migratory Bird 
Treaty Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 
"(f) The disposition or sale of surplus animals, minerals, and 
other products, the grant of privileges, and the carrying out of any 
other activities that result in the collection of revenues within any 
areas of the System may be accomplished upon such terms, condi-
tions, or regulations, including sale in the open markets, as the 
Secretary shall determine to be in the best interest of the United 
States. Further, the Secretary may dispose of such surplus animals 
by exchange of the same or other kinds, gift or loan to public 
institutions for exhibition or propagation purposes and for the 
advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of information 
relating to the conservation of wildlife in accordance with such 
regulations as he majr prescribe. 
" (g) Beginning with the first day of the next full fiscal year here-
after, the provisions of this Act shall supersede and repeal the provi-
sions of the paragraph entitled 'Management of National Wildlife 
Kefuges' in the General Appropriation Act, 1951, approved September 
6, 1950 (64 Stat. 595, 693-694)." 
Approved August 30, 1964. 
Public Law 88-524 
August 31, 1964 
[H. R. 10069] 
Lassen National 
Forest, Calif. 
Land exchange. 
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486. 
5 use 511 note. 
AN ACT 
To authorize the exchange of lands adjacent to the Lassen National Forest in 
California, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions 
of the Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as amended and supple-
mented by the Act of February 28, 1925 (43 Stat. 1090), and the Act 
of June 11,1960 (74 Stat. 205), are hereby extended to the following 
described lands: 
TOWNSHIP 31 NORTH, RANGE 11 EAST, MOUNT DIABLO MERIDIAN 
Section 8, southwest quarter southwest quarter, west half south-
east quarter southwest quarter; 
Section 18, north half northeast quarter northeast quarter, 
northwest quarter northeast quarter, northeast quarter southwest 
quarter, lot 3. 
Lands conveyed to the United States under this Act shall, upon accept-
ance of title, become parts of the Lassen National Forest and shall be 
subject to the laws, rules, and regulations applicable thereto. 
Approved August 31, 1964.