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which expired due to the ending of the unlimited 

 national emergency of May 27, 1941, and which 

 subsequent to such expiration have been and are 

 now used by the military departments with the 

 concurrence of the Department of the Interior, or 

 to the withdrawal of public domain lands of the 

 Marine Corps Training Center, Twentynlne Palms, 

 California, and the naval gunnery ranges In the 

 State of Nevada designated as Basic Black Rock 

 and Basic Sahwave Mountain. 

 (Pub. L. 85-337, § 1, Feb. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 27.) 



§ 156. Same; approval by Congress of over 5,000 acres 

 for any project or facility. 



No public land, water, or land and water area 

 shall, except by Act of Congress, on and after Feb- 

 ruary 28. 1958 be d) withdrawn from settlement, 

 location, sale, or entry for the use of the Depart- 

 ment of Defense for defense purposes; (2) re- 

 served for such use: or (3) restricted from opera- 

 tion of the mineral leasing provisions of the Outer 

 Continental Shelf Lands Act, if such withdrawal, 

 reservation, or restriction would result in the with- 

 drawal, reservation, or restriction of more than 

 five thousand acres in the aggregate for any one 

 defense project or facility of the Department of 

 Defense since the date of enactment of this Act 

 or since the last previous Act of Congress which 

 withdrew, reserved, or restricted public land, wa- 

 ter, or land and water area for that project or 

 facility, whichever is later. (Pub. L. 85-337, I 2, 

 Feb. 28. 1958. 72 Stat. 28.) 



§157. .Same; applications; specifications. 



Any application filed on and after February 28, 

 1958 for a withdrawal, reservation, or restriction, 

 the approval of which will, under section 156 of 

 this title, require an Act of Congress, shall 

 specify — 



(1) the name of the requesting agency and in- 

 tended using agency; 



(2) location of the area involved, to include 

 a detailed description of the exterior boundaries 

 and excepted areas, if any. within such pro- 

 posed withdrawal, reservation, or restriction; 



(3) gross land and water acreage within the 

 exterior boundaries of the requested withdrawal, 

 reservation, or restriction, and net public land, 

 water, or public land and water acreage covered 

 by the application; 



(4) the purpose or purposes for which the area 

 js proposed to be withdrawn, reserved, or re- 

 stricted, or if the purpose or purposes are clas- 

 sified for national security reasons, a statement 

 to that effect; 



(5) whether the proposed use will result in 

 contamination of any or all of the requested 

 withdrawal, reservation, or restriction area, and 

 if so, whether such contamination will be per- 

 manent or temporary; 



(6) the period during which the proposed 

 withdrawal, reservation, or restriction will con- 

 tinue in effect; 



(7) whether, and if so to what extent, the pro- 

 posed use will affect continuing full operation of 

 the public land laws and Federal regulations re- 

 lating to conservation, utilization, and develop- 

 ment of mineral resources, timber and other 

 material resources, grazing resources, flsh and 

 wildlife resources, water resources, and scenic, 

 wilderness, and recreation and other values; and 



(8) if effecting the purpose for which the area 

 is proposed to be withdrawn, reserved, or re- 

 stricted, will involve the use of water in any 

 State, whether, subject to existing rights under 

 law, the intended using agency has acquired, or 

 proposes to acquire, rights to the use thereof in 

 conformity with State laws and procedures re- 

 lating to the control, appropriation, use. and dis- 

 tribution of water. 



(Pub. L. 85-337, § 3, Feb. 28. 1958, 72 Stat. 28.) 



§158. Same; mineral resources. 



All withdrawals or reservations of public lands 

 for the use of any agency of the Department of 

 Defense, except lands withdrawn or reserved spe- 

 cifically as naval petroleum, naval oil shale, or 

 naval coal reserves, heretofore or hereafter made 

 by the United States, shall be deemed to be sub- 

 ject to the condition that all minerals, including 

 oil and gas, in the lands so withdrawn or reserved 

 are under the Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 

 Interior and there shall be no disposition of, or ex- 

 ploration for, any minerals in such lands except 

 under the applicable public land mining and min- 

 eral leasing laws: Provided, That no disposition of. 

 or exploration for. any minerals in such lands 

 shall be made where the Secretary of Defense, after 

 consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, de- 

 termines that such disposition or exploration is in- 

 consistent with the military use of the lands so 

 withdrawn or reserved (Pub. L. 85-337. § 6, Feb. 

 28. 1958, 72 Stat. 30.) 



20. Open Space Land 



42 US.C. 1500-I500d-1 



(See Open Space Land under Title n Environment, Generally) 



