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16 U.S.C. § 398b — Repealed. Pub. L. 85–404, May 16, 1958, 72 Stat. 112
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 885, § 3, 70 Stat. 941, authorized an appropriation for capital improvements and an annual appropriation for administration of the Virgin Islands National Park.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 885, § 3, 70 Stat. 941, authorized an appropriation for capital improvements and an annual appropriation for administration of the Virgin Islands National Park.
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**(a) Conveyance to Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa** Subject to valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest of the United States in lands permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters up to but not above the line of mean high tide and seaward to a line three geographical miles distant from the coastlines of the territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, as heretofore or hereafter modified by accretion, erosion, and reliction, and in artificially made, filled in, or reclaimed lands which were formerly permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters, are hereby conveyed to the governments of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, as the case may be, to be administered in trust for the benefit of the people thereof.
**(b) Retention of certain lands and mineral rights by United States** There are excepted from the transfer made by subsection (a) hereof—
(i) all deposits of oil, gas, and other minerals, but the term “minerals” shall not include coral, sand, and gravel;
(ii) all submerged lands adjacent to property owned by the United States above the line of mean high tide;
(iii) all submerged lands adjacent to property above the line of mean high tide acquired by the United States by eminent domain proceedings, purchase, exchange, or gift, after the date of enactment of this Act, as required for completion of the Department of the Navy Land Acquisition Project relative to the construction of the Ammunition Pier authorized by the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1971 (84 Stat. 1204), as amended by section 201 of the Military Construction Act, 1973 (86 Stat. 1135
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 398b
the real and personal property located on Lots 251–252
Estate Contant Enighed.
§ 398b. Repealed. Pub. L. 85–404, May 16, 1958, 72
Stat. 112
Section, act Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 885, § 3, 70 Stat. 941, au-
thorized an appropriation for capital improvements and
an annual appropriation for administration of the Vir-
gin Islands National Park.
§ 398c. Addition of lands
In furtherance of the purposes of sections 398
and 398a of this title, providing for the establish-
ment of the Virgin Islands National Park, and in
order to preserve for the benefit of the public
significant coral gardens, marine life, and
seascapes in the vicinity thereof, the boundaries
of such park, subject to valid existing rights, are
revised to include the adjoining lands, sub-
merged lands, and waters, and Hassel Island lo-
cated in Saint Thomas Harbor and adjoining
lands, submerged lands, and waters, described as
follows:
NORTH OFFSHORE AREA
Beginning at the hereinafter lettered point A
on the shore of Cruz Bay, a corner in the Virgin
Islands National Park boundary, being also a
corner of lot F, Cruz Bay, added to the park by
order of designation signed June 29, 1960, by the
Assistant Secretary of the Interior pursuant to
sections 398 and 398a of this title, and published
in the Federal Register of July 7, 1960, the said
corner being the terminus of the course recited
therein as ‘‘north 58 degrees 50 minutes west a
distance of 20.0 feet, more or less, along Govern-
ment land to a point;’’ for the third call in the
metes and bounds description lot F, Cruz Bay.
From the initial point A, distances in nautical
miles, along direct courses between the herein-
after lettered points at geographic positions
(latitudes north, longitudes west):
Nor
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