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[CITE: 16USC45a-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
 
Sec. 45a-1. Addition of lands authorized

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to 
accept title to lands and interests in lands near the entrance to the 
Sequoia National Park, subject to existing easements for public highways 
and public utilities, within the following described tracts:
    Tract A. A portion of tract 37, township 17 south, range 29 east, 
Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, comprising 
approximately two acres.
    Tract B. A portion of the east half of the northeast quarter of 
section 4, township 17 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, 
Tulare County, California, comprising approximately thirty-eight acres.
    Tract C. A portion of the south half of tract 37, township 17 south, 
range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, 
comprising approximately sixty one-hundredths acre.
    The owners of the lands to be conveyed to the United States, before 
any exchange is effective, shall furnish to the Secretary of the 
Interior evidence satisfactory to him of title to such lands. Such 
property shall become a part of the Sequoia National Park upon the 
acceptance of title thereto by the Secretary, and shall thereafter be 
subject to all laws and regulations applicable to the park.

(Dec. 21, 1943, ch. 372, Sec. 1, 57 Stat. 606.)


                   Electric Power Development Permits

    Pub. L. 99-338, June 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 641, as amended by Pub. L. 
103-437, Sec. 6(d)(4), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4583, provided: ``That 
the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a permit for 
ten years, and may issue not more than one renewal of equivalent 
duration, for portions of an existing hydroelectric project, known as 
the Kaweah Project of Southern California Edison Company, to continue to 
occupy and use lands of the United States within Sequoia National Park 
as necessary for continued operation and maintenance.
    ``Sec. 2. The Secretary shall not execute any permit renewal prior 
to one hundred and twenty calendar days from the date the same is 
submitted to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
States Senate and to the Committee on Natural Resources [now Committee 
on Resources] of the United States House of Representatives.
    ``Sec. 3. The permit shall contain a provision prohibiting expansion 
of the Kaweah Project in Sequoia National Park and shall also contain 
such other terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall 
deem necessary and proper for the management and care of Sequoia 
National Park and the purposes for which it was established.''
    Pub. L. 93-522, Dec. 14, 1974, 88 Stat. 1660, as amended by Pub. L. 
95-625, title III, Sec. 314(d)(3), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3482, 
authorized Secretary of the Interior to issue a permit to occupy and use 
lands of United States within Sequoia National Park necessary for 
continued operation, maintenance, and use of hydroelectric project known 
as the Kaweah Number 3 project of Southern California Edison Company, 
provided that in no event could the term of such permit extend for any 
period in excess of ten years following the date of its issuance, unless 
specifically authorized by law, provided for terms and conditions of 
permit, required report on impact of hydroelectric project, and provided 
for applicability of the Act.
    Pub. L. 88-47, June 21, 1963, 77 Stat. 70, authorized Secretary of 
the Interior to issue a permit to use and occupy United States lands 
within Sequoia National Park necessary for continued operation, 
maintenance, and use of the Kaweah number 3 hydroelectric project of 
Southern California Edison Company, which by its terms was to provide 
that any privileges granted thereunder were to be exercised in accord 
with Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.) and rules and 
regulations promulgated thereunder, and which was to expire no later 
than Aug. 6, 1974.
    Section 3 of act Dec. 21, 1943, provided as follows: ``Nothing in 
this Act [sections 45a-1 and 45a-2 of this title] shall be construed to 
alter or affect in any manner the provisions, or extend the term, of the 
permit heretofore granted to the Southern California Edison Company and 
predecessors thereof for the use of lands in the Sequoia National Park 
for electric power development purposes, or to relieve the company of 
any financial or other obligation under said permit, or under agreements 
or orders relating or supplementary thereto.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 45a-2 of this title.
