An Act to enact the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1959 with certain amendments
PL 86-509 (H.R.7681), enacted 06/11/1960

43 Stat. 1090. 
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PUBLIC LAW 86-509-JUNE 11, 1960 
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Public Law 86-509 
AN ACT 
June H, I960 
To enact the provisions of Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1959 with 
[H. R. 7t58l] 
certain amendments. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, except as peimSint!*""* °*" 
otherwise provided in section 2 hereof, the following functions are 
Transfer o
f func-
hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture: 
(a) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of March 20, 1922, 42 Stat. 465, as amended (16 U.S.C. 485, 486), 
with respect to exchanges of non-Federal lands for national forest 
lands or timber. 
(b) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of February 2,1922 (42 Stat. 362), with respect to exchanges of lands 
in private ownership within or within six miles of the Deschutes 
National Forest for national forest lands, or for timber from any 
national forest, in the State of Oregon. 
(c) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 643), except section 2 thereof, with respect 
to exchanges of privately owned lands for national forest timber in 
New Mexico. 
(d) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of January 12, 1925 (43 Stat. 739), except section 2 thereof, with 
respect to exchanges of privately owned lands for national forest 
timber in New Mexico. 
(e) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of April 21, 1926 (44 Stat. 303), except section 2 thereof, with respect 
to exchanges of privately owned lands for national forest lands or 
timber in New Mexico and Arizona. 
(f) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 2 
of the Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 655; 16 U.S.C. 38), with respect 
to exchanges of lands held in private or State ownership for national 
forest lands or timber in Montana. 
(g) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of June 15, 1926 (44 Stat. 746), with respect to exchanges of State 
lands for national forest lands in New Mexico. 
(h) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act 
of December 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 1042), with respect to exchange trans-
actions in which lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agri-
culture are exchanged for State lands in Minnesota which are to be 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture after their 
acquisition by the United States. 
(i) The function of the Secretary of the Interior (originally vested 
in the Commissioner of the General Land Office) under section 6 of 
the Act of April 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 257; 43 U.S.C. 872), with respect 
to execution of quitclaim deeds for lands conveyed to the United 
States in connection with exchange transactions involving lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(j) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 
2(b) of the Joint Resolution of August 8, 1947 (61 Stat. 921), with 
respect to appraisals and sales of certain lands within the Tongass 
National Forest. 
(k) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 10 
of the Act of March 1,1911 (36 Stat. 962; 16 U.S.C. 519), with respect 
to sales of small tracts of acquired national forest lands found .chiefly 
valuable for agriculture. 
(1) The functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 
402 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1946 (60 Stat. 1099), 
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PUBLIC LAW 86-510-JUNE 11, 1960 
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Mineral policies. 
Authorization. 
section 3 of the Act of September 1, 1949 (63 Stat. 683; 30 U.S.C. 
192c), the Act of June 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 311; 16 U.S.C. 508b), sec-
tion 3 of the Act of June 28, 1952 (66 Stat. 285), or otherwise, with 
respect to the use and disposal from lands under the jurisdiction of 
the Secretary of Agriculture of those mineral materials which the 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to dispose of from other lands 
under his jurisdiction under the Act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 681), 
as amended by the Act of July 23, 1955 (69 Stat. 367; 30 U.S.C. 601 
and the following). 
SEC. 2. (a) In no case covered by subsections (a), (b), (e), (g), 
and (h) of section 1 hereof shall the exchange provide for the patent-
ing of land by the United States without a reservation of minerals 
(1) unless the Secretary of Agriculture has obtained the advice of 
the Secretary of the Interior that the land is nonmineral in character, 
or (2) unless the Secretary of the Interior approves of the valuation 
and disposition of the minerals in the lands to be patented. 
A sale 
of land covered by subsection (j) of section 1 hereof shall be made by 
the Secretary of Agriculture without a reservation of miner^vls only 
after consultation with, and the approval of, the Secretary of the 
Interior as to the valuation and disposition of the minerals. No lands 
of the United States shall be exchanged in any case covered by sub-
section (f) of section 1 hereof unless the Secretary of Agriculture has 
obtained the advice of the Secretary of the Interior that such lands 
are nonmineral in character. 
(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to determine or adjudicate the validity or 
invalidity of any mining claim or part thereof. 
(c) Nothing in subsection (1) of section 1 hereof shall be construed 
to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to dispose of coal, phosphate, 
sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gas, or sulfur, or to dispose of any 
minerals which would be subject to disposal under the mining laws 
if said laws were applicable to the lands in which the minerals are 
situated. 
(d) Upon approval by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to 
the provisions of this Act of any exchange or sale, respectively, of 
national forest lands under the provisions of law referred to in sub-
sections (a), (b), (e), (f), (g),and (j) of section 1, hereof, the Secre-
tary of the Interior, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, shall issue the patent therefor. 
(e) All conveyances under the Act referred to in subsection (h) 
of section 1 hereof of national forest lands reserved from the public 
domain shall, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
be made by the Secretary of the Interior. 
Approved June 11, 1960. 
June 11. 1960 
[H. R. 8024] 
Public Law 86-510 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of May 9, 1876, to permit certain streets in San Francisco, 
California, witliin the area known as the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, 
to be used for park and other purposes. 
S a n 
F r a n c i s c o 
P a l a c e 
of 
Fine 
Arts. 
Park purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to relinquish the interests of the United States in certain 
lands to the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of Cali-
fornia", approved May 9, 1876 (19 Stat. 52), is amended by adding 
at the end thereof the following new section: