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PUBLIC LAW 96-205—MAR.12, 1980

94 STAT. 91

anysuch transportation or storage occur unless the proposed transportation or storage plan has been specifically authorized by Act of

Congress: Provided, That the provisionsof this section shall not apply

to the cleanup and rehabilitation of Bikini and Enewetak Atolls.
(b) For the purpose of this section the words ‘‘territory or posses-

sion” include the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and any area

“Territory or

possession.”

not within the boundaries of the several States over which the United

States claimsor exercises sovereignty.

Sec. 606. (a) Section 8 of the Act of March 2, 1917 (“Jones Act’), as

amended (48 U.S.C. 749), is amended by adding the following after the

Definitions.

last sentence thereof: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
as used in this section (1) ‘submerged lands underlying navigable

bodies of water’ include lands permanently or periodically covered by
tidal waters up to but not above the line of meanhightide, all lands
underlying the navigable bodies of water in and aroundtheisland of
Puerto Rico and the adjacentislands, andall artificially made,filled

in, or reclaimed lands which formerly were lands teneath navigable
bodies of water; (2) ‘navigable bodies of water and submerged lands
underlying the same in and around theisland of Puerto Rico and the
adjacent islands and waters’ extend from the coastline ofthe island of

Puerto Rico and the adjacent islands as heretofore or hereafter

modified by accretion, erosion, or reliction, seaward to a distance of
three marineleagues; (3) ‘control’ includesall right, title, and interest

in and to and jurisdiction and authority over the submerged lands

underlying the harbor areas and navigable streams and bodies of

water in and around the island of Puerto Rico and the adjacent
islands and waters, and the natural resources underlying such
submerged lands and waters, and includes proprietary rights of

ownership, and the rights of management, administration, leasing,
use, and development of such natural resources and submerged lands
beneath such waters.”
(b) Section 7 of the Act of March 2, 1917 (‘Jones Act’), as amended
(48 U.S.C. 747),ts-amended by adding the following. after the last
sentence thereof: ‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, as
used in this section ‘control’ includes all right, title, and interest in

and to and jurisdiction and authority over the aforesaid property and

includes proprietary rights of ownership, and the rights of manage-

ment, administration, leasing, use, and development of such

property.”’.

Sec. 607. (a) The first section of the Act entitled “An Act to place.
certain submerged lands within the jurisdiction of the governments
of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and for other
purposes”, approved October 5, 1974 (48 U.S.C. 1705), is amended by

adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
‘(dX 1) The Secretary of the Interior shall, not later than sixty days

Mineral

after the date of enactmentof this subsection, convey to the govern- deposits,
conveyance of
ments of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, as the case USS.rights,title,
may be, all right, title, and interest of the United States in deposits of and interest.

oil, gas, and other minerals in the submerged lands conveyed to the

governmentof such territory by subsection(a) of this section.
(2) The conveyance of mineral deposits under paragraph(1) of this
subsection shall be subject to any existing lease, permit, or other
interest granted by the United States prior to the date of such
conveyance. Al]l rentals, royalties, or fees which accrue after such
date of conveyance in connection with any such lease, permit, or
other interest shall be payable to the government ofthe territory to
which such mineral deposits are conveyed.”.

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