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m EBC P u b lic L aw 666 - 83d Con C hapter 1004 - 2d S e s s S . 3302 AN ACT ;R bW LWH GCH 1.* 8 - L A W DEPT. SEP 2 21854 U. P. R. R., Ouj ha Granting to the Las Vegas Valley water district, a pnbli ;Jt»ppratjU>n organised under the laws of the State of Nevada, certain pubhe"!anris of (tie Gutted States in the State of Nevada. I J "iW JJB FJG — WPH 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby Las Vegas Valley granted to the Las Vegas Valley water district, a public corporationwater district, organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, all lands belonging to Nev. the United States situated in Clark County, State of Nevada, which tand grant, may be necessary, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities for the develop­ment, production, storage, transmission, and distribution of water, including any or all of the following purposes only to the extent re­quired for such development, production, storage, transmission, and distribution of water: Rights-of-way; buildings and structures; construction and main­tenance camps; dumping grounds, flowage, diverting, or storage dams; pumping plants; canals, ditches, pipes, pipelines, flumes, tunnels, and conduits for conveying water for domestic, irrigation, household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other useful purposes; poles, towers, underground conduits, lines, and equipment for the con- ' veyance and distribution of electrical energy; poles, underground con­duits, and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes; roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, trans­mission, or communication; for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character; or any other necessary purposes of said grantee, together with the right to take for its own use, from any public lands, within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like char­acter necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and mainte­nance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric trans­mission, telephone, and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tram­ways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and com­munication, or any other necessary purposes of said grantee. That there is hereby excepted and reserved unto the United States,Reservation of from said grant, minerals, other than sand, stone, earth, gravel, and“tnerals. other materials of like character : Provided. however. That such68 stat. 864. minerals so excepted and reserved shall be prospected for, mined, and68 Stat. 865. removed only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. This grant shall be effective upon (1) the filing by said grantee at any time after the passage of this Act, with the manager of the United States local land office in the district where said lands are situated, of a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said lands and of said rights-of-way for the purposes hereinabove set forth; (2) the approval of such map or maps by the Secretary of the Interior with such reservations or modifications as he may deem appropriate; (3) the payment of a price representing the fair mar­ket value for said rights-of-way and other lands, and also for stone, earth, sand, gravel and other materials of like character, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior through appraisal, exclusive of any increased value resulting from the development or improvement of the lands by the grantee or its predecessors, or a reasonable rental, as the case may be: Provided, That said lands for rights-of-way shall be along such location and of such width, not to exceed two hundred and fifrv feet, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the purposes of this Act.