An Act to provide for the withdrawal from the public domain of certain lands in the Granite Creek area, Alaska, for use by the Department of the Army at Fort Greely, Alaska, and for other purposes
PL 87-334 (H.R.2279), enacted 10/03/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-334-OCT. 3, 1961 
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October 3, 1961 
[H. R. 2279] 
Alaska. 
Lands. 
Public Law 87-334 
AN ACT 
To provide for the withdrawal from the public domain of certain lands in the 
Granite Creek area, Alaska, for use by the Department of the Army at Fort 
Greely, Alaska, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subject to 
valid existing rights the public lands aggregating approximately 
fifty-one thousand five hundred and ninety acres of land in the 
Granite Creek area, Alaska, as more fully described in application 
(serial number Fairbanks 012203) from the Department of the Army 
to the Department of the Interior and set forth in the Federal Register 
of December 13, 1955, page 9313 (Federal Register document 55-
10007; filed, December 12,1955; 8:52 antemeridian), however except-
ing therefrom that portion of west one-half of section 26, township 
12 south, range 10 east Fairbanks meridian lying east of the Richard-
son Highway, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation 
under the public land laws including the mining and mineral leasing 
laws and disposals of materials under the Act of July 31, 1947, as 
amended (61 Stat. 681; 30 U.S.C. 601-604), and reserved for the use 
of the Department of the Army as a testing and maneuver area for a 
period of ten years or, if extended by the Secretary of the Interior 
for a period of fifteen years, or for any shorter period as may be de-
termined by the Secretary of the Army upon notice to the Secretary 
of the Interior. 
(b) The Secretary of the Interior may, with the concurrence of the 
ulfi'^^r'aii^^'si-
Secretary of the Army, authorize use or disposition of any of the tioiTauthorityr*"" 
lands or resources withdrawn and reserved by subsection (a) of this 
section. 
(c) To the extent that the Secretary of the Army determines it to be 
consistent with military requirements and the public safety: (1) the 
lands withdrawn and reserved by this Act, or selected portions thereof, 
shall be open during legally established seasons for hunting, fishing, 
and trapping, and military operations affecting the same shall be 
suspended during such periods and (2) access across the landSj or 
selected portions thereof, shall be permitted to public hunting, fishing, 
and trapping areas. 
(d) Upon request of the Secretary of the Interior at the time of 
the final termination of the reservation effected by this Act, the 
Department of the Army shall make safe for nonmilitary uses the 
land withdrawn and reserved, or such portions thereof as may be 
specified by the Secretary of the Interior, by neutralizing unexploded 
ammunition, bombs, artillery projectiles, or other expfosive objects 
and chemical agents. Thereafter the Secretary of the Interior pur-
suant to law shall provide for the appropriate use or disposition of all 
or any part of the land withdrawn and reserved under provisions of 
this Act. Nothing in this subsection, however, shall be construed to 
prevent the Secretary of the Army at that time from making applica-
tion for further withdrawal and reservation of all or part of said 
lands under laws and regulations then existing. 
Approved October 3, 1961. 
Hunting, fishing, 
etc. 
S a f e t y p r o v i -
sions.