An Act to provide for the withdrawal and reservation for the Department of the Navy of certain public lands of the United States at Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, Imperial County, Calif., for defense purposes
PL 88-119 (H.R.5222), enacted 09/06/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-118-SEPT. 6, 1963 
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STAT. 
Seventy-fifth Congress), and which will create a reservoir in Polk 
and Marion Counties, Iowa, shall be known and designated hereafter 
as "Red Rock Dam" and the reservoir formed by such dam shall be 
known and designated as "Lake Red Rock". 
Any law, reflation, 
map, document, record, or other paper of the United States m which 
such dam and reservoir are referred to shall be held to refer to such 
dam as the "Red Rook Dam" and to such reservoir as "Lake Red Rock". 
Approved September 6, 1963. 
September 6, 1963 
[S. 1139] 
Public Law 88-118 
AN ACT 
To repeal a portion of the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation 
Act, 1943, approved October 26, 1942 (56 Stat. 990, 999), as amended, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Second Supple- United States of A'lnerica in Congress assembled, That the second 
Defini^A'°ro^^i- Paragraph under the heading "FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY, 
PUBLIC 
ation Act, 1943, 
BuiLDiNGS ADMINISTRATION" in the Secoud Supplemental National 
Defense Appropriation Act, 1943 (56 Stat. 990 at 999), as amended by 
the Act of October 26, 1949 (63 Stat. 930), is amended by striking out 
all beginning with ''''Provided further. That effective on the date of 
this enactment" down through "without exchange of funds:". 
Approved September 6, 1963. 
amendment. 
40 u s e 317. 
September 6, 1963 
[H. R. 5222] 
Public Law 88-119 
AN ACT 
To provide for the Withdrawal and reservation for the Department of the Navy 
of certain public lands of the United States at Chocolate Mountain Aerial 
Gunnery Range, Imperial County, California, for defense purposes. 
Chocolate Moun-
tain Aerial Gun-
nery Range, Calif. 
Lands. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) subject to 
valid existing rights the public lands, and the minerals therein, within 
the area described in section 2 of this Act are hereby withdrawn from 
all appropriations and other forms of disposition under public land 
laws including the mining and mineral leasing laws and disposals of 
materials under the xAct of July 31, 1947, as amended (61 Stat. 681; 30 
U.S.C. 601-604), except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, 
and reserved for use of the Department of the Navy for a period of 
five years with an option to renew the withdrawal and reservation for 
a period of five years upon notice to the Secretary of the Interior, and 
suDJect to the condition that the reservation may be terminated at any 
time during either of such periods by the Secretary of the Navy upon 
notice to the Secretary of the Interior. 
(b) The Secretary of the Interior may, with the concurrence of the 
Secretary of the Navy, authorize use or disposition of any of the 
lands or resources withdrawn and reserved by subsection (a) of this 
section. 
(c) Upon request of the Secretary of the Interior at the time of 
final termination of the reservation effected by this Act, the Depart-
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ment of the Navy shall make safe for nonmilitary uses the land with-
drawn 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 explosive objects and chemical 
agents. 
Tliereafter, the Secretary of the Interior pursuant 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 Navy at that time from making application for fur-
ther withdrawal and reservation of all or part of said lands under 
laws and regulations then existing. 
SEC. 2. The lands withdrawn and reserved by this Act are those that 
are now or may hereafter become subject to the public land laws within 
the area described as follows: Approximately 252,126 acres, more or 
less, within the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, Imperial 
County, California, and more fully described as follows: 
township 9 south, range 16 east, that portion of section 9 lying 
southeasterly of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe 
Road, that portion of section 10 lymg southerly of the northerly 
line of the Niland-Blythe Road and southwesterly of the south-
westerly line of the Niland-Rannells Road, that portion of sec-
tion 11 lying southwesterly of the southw^esterly line of the 
Niland-Rannells Road, that portion of section 13 lying south-
westerly and southerly of the southwesterly and southerly lino 
of the Niland-Rannells Road, that portion of section 14 lying 
southwesterly of the southwesterly line of the Niland-Rannells 
Road, section 15, that portion of section 16 lying southeasterly 
of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, that portion 
of section 20 lying southeasterly of the northwesterly line of the 
Niland-Blythe Road, that portion of section 21 lying south-
easterly of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, 
sections 22 and 23, that portion of section 24 lying southwesterly 
of the southwesterly line of the Niland-Rannells Road, sections 
25 to 28 inclusive, that portion of section 29 lying southeasterly 
of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, that portion 
of section 31 lying southeasterly of the northwesterly line of the 
Niland-Blythe Road, that portion of section 32 lying south-
easterly of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, 
sections 33 to 36 inclusive; 
township 9 south, range 17 east, that portion of section 19 lying 
southwesterly of the southwesterly line of the Niland-Rannells 
Road, that portion of section 20 lying southw^esterly of the south-
westerly line of the Niland-Rannells Road, section 26, that portion. 
of section 27 lying southeasterly of the southeasterly line of the 
Niland-Rannells Road, that portion of section 28 lying south-
easterly, southerly and southwesterly of the southeasterly, south-
erly and southwesterly line of the Niland-Rannells Road, that 
portion of section 29 lying southwesterly of the southwesterly line 
of the Niland-Rannells Road, sections 30 to 36 inclusive; 
township 10 south, range 15 east, that portion of section 12 
lying southeasterly of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe 
Road, that portion of section 13 lying southeasterly of the north-
westerly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, that portion of section 
14 lying southeasterly of the northwesterly line of the Niland-
Blythe Road, that portion of section 15 lying southeasterly of the 
northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, that portion of 
section 21 lying southeasterly of the northwesterly line of the 
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Niland-Blythe Road, that portion of section 22 lying southeast-
erly of the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, sections 
23 to 28 inclusive, sections 33 to 36 inclusive; 
township 10 south, range 16 east, sections 1 to 4 inclusive, that 
portion of section 5 lying easterly of the westerly line of the 
Niland-Blythe Road, that portion of section 6 lying south-
easterly 01 the northwesterly line of the Niland-Blythe Road, 
that portion of section 7 lying southeasterly of the northwesterly 
line of the Niland-Blythe Road, sections 8 to 36 inclusive; 
township 10 south, range 17 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 10 south, range 18 east, sections 6 to 8 inclusive; sec-
tions 16 to 22 inclusive, and sections 25 to 36 inclusive; 
township 10 south, range 19 east, sections 31 and 32; 
township 11 south, range 15 east, sections 1 to 3 inclusive, and 
section 12; 
township 11 south, range 16 east, sections 1 to 18 inclusive; 
sections 20 to 28 inclusive, and sections 34 to 36 inclusive; 
township 11 south, range 17 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 11 south, range 18 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 11 south, range 19 east, sections 4 to 11 inclusive, sec-
tions 14 to 23 inclusive, and sections 26 to 35 inclusive; 
township 12 south, range 16 east, sections 1, 2, and 12; 
township 12 south, range 17 east, sections 1 to 18 inclusive, sec-
tions 20 to 28 inclusive, and sections 35 and 36; 
township 12 south, range 18 east, sections 1 to 36 inclusive; 
township 12 south, range 19 east, sections 2 to 10 inclusive, 
north hall of section 11, sections 15 to 22 inclusive, and sections 
27 to 34 inclusive: 
township 13 south, range 18 east, sections 1 to 6 inclusive, east 
half of section 8, and sections 9 to 11 inclusive; 
township 13 south, range 19 east, north half of section 5, and 
nortli halt of section 6; San Hei-nardino base and meridian. 
Approved September 6, 1963. 
Public Law 88-120 
September 9, 1963 
[H. R. 3887] 
Great Smoky 
Mountains Na-
tional Park, N. C. 
AN ACT 
To authorize the acceptance of donations of land in the State of North Carolina 
for the construction of an entrance road at Great Smoky Mountains National 
Park, and for other purposes. 
Bs it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representativea 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in order to 
provide suitable access to the Cataloochee section of Great Smoky 
Mountains National Park, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to select the location of an entrance road from a point on North Caro-
lina Highway Numbered 107 close to its point of interchange with 
Interstate Route Numbered 40, near Hepco, North Carolina, to the 
eastern boundary of the park in the vicinity of the Cataloochee section, 
and to accept, on behalf of the LTnited States, donations of land and 
interests in land for the construction of the entrance road, and to 
construct the entrance road on the donated land: Provided, That the 
right-of-way to be acquired, by donation, for the entrance road shall 
be of such width as to comprise not more than an average of one 
htm.dred and twenty-five acres per mile for its entire length of about