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48 U.S.C. § 1707 — Payment of rents, royalties, and fees to local government
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On and after the date of enactment of this Act, all rents, royalties, or fees from leases, permits, or use rights, issued prior to such date of enactment by the United States with respect to the land conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment made by this Act, and rights of action for damages for trespass occupancies of such lands shall accrue and belong to the appropriate local government under whose jurisdiction the land is located.
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On and after the date of enactment of this Act, all rents, royalties, or fees from leases, permits, or use rights, issued prior to such date of enactment by the United States with respect to the land conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment made by this Act, and rights of action for damages for trespass occupancies of such lands shall accrue and belong to the appropriate local government under whose jurisdiction the land is located.
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**(a)** The Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized to lease or to sell upon such terms as he may deem advantageous to the Government of the United States any property of the United States under his administrative supervision in the Virgin Islands not needed for public purposes.
**(b)**
(1) All right, title, and interest of the United States in the property placed under the control of the government of the Virgin Islands by [section 1405c(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1405c/a&num=0&edition=prelim), not reserved to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior within one hundred and twenty days after October 5, 1974, is hereby conveyed to such government. The conveyance effected by the preceding sentence shall not apply to that land and other property which on October 5, 1974, is administered by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Park System and such lands and other property shall be retained by the United States.
(2) Subject to valid existing rights, title to all property in the Virgin Islands which may have been acquired by the United States from Denmark under the Convention entered into August 16, 1916, not reserved or retained by the United States in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 93–435 (88 Stat. 1210) is hereby transferred to the Virgin Islands government.
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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 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1707
shall be paramount to, but shall not be deemed
to include, proprietary rights of ownership, or
the rights of management, administration, leas-
ing, use, and development of the lands and nat-
ural resources which are specifically conveyed
to the government of Guam, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Is-
lands, or American Samoa, as the case may be,
by section 1705 of this title.
(d) Status of lands beyond the three-mile limit
Nothing in this Act shall affect the status of
lands beyond the three-mile limit described in
section 1705 of this title.
(Pub. L. 93–435, § 2, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1211; Pub.
L. 113–34, § 1(a), Sept. 18, 2013, 127 Stat. 518.)
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This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), is
Pub. L. 93–435, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1210, which enacted
sections 1705 to 1708 of this title, amended section 1545
of this title, and repealed sections 1701 to 1703 of this
title. For complete classification of this Act to the
Code, see Tables.
AMENDMENTS
2013—Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 113–34 inserted ‘‘the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,’’ after
‘‘Guam,’’.
§ 1707. Payment of rents, royalties, and fees to
local government
On and after the date of enactment of this Act,
all rents, royalties, or fees from leases, permits,
or use rights, issued prior to such date of enact-
ment by the United States with respect to the
land conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment
made by this Act, and rights of action for dam-
ages for trespass occupancies of such lands shall
accrue and belong to the appropriate local gov-
ernment under whose jurisdiction the land is lo-
cated.
(Pub. L. 93–435, § 4, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat.
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