Land and Water Conservation Fund Act Amendments: Hearings ... 90-2, on S. 1401, S. 2828, S. 531, S. 1826, February 5, 6, 21, 1968

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Page 78 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Page 83 - ... fair and equitable taking into consideration direct and indirect cost to the Government, value to the recipient, public policy or interest served, and other pertinent facts...
Page 2 - The values of the properties so exchanged either shall be approximately equal, or if they are not approximately equal the values shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secretary as the circumstances require.
Page 217 - ... needed for that purpose, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States upon every application of the Secretary of the Interior under this act to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.
Page 264 - California is not the owner of the three-mile marginal belt along its coast, and that the Federal Government rather than the state has paramount rights in and power over that belt, an incident to which is full dominion over the resources of the soil under that water area, including oil.
Page 217 - That in every case in which the Secretary of the Treasury or any other officer of the Government has been, or hereafter shall be, authorized to procure real estate for the erection of a public building or for other public uses...
Page 282 - coast line" means the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters...
Page 10 - ... the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Forest Service, the Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (United States and Mexico...
Page 225 - State or subdivisions thereof for the construction and maintenance of public roads or for the support of public schools or other public educational institutions, as the legislature of the State may direct...
Page 78 - That so much of the ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river...

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