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[CITE: 48USC1421f]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1421f. Title to property transferred


(a) Property employed by naval government of Guam

    The title to all property, real and personal, owned by the United 
States and employed by the naval government of Guam in the 
administration of the civil affairs of the inhabitants of Guam, 
including automotive and other equipment, tools and machinery, water and 
sewerage facilities, bus lines and other utilities, hospitals, schools, 
and other buildings, shall be transferred to the government of Guam 
within ninety days after August 1, 1950.

(b) Other property not reserved

    All other property, real and personal, owned by the United States in 
Guam, not reserved by the President of the United States within ninety 
days after August 1, 1950, is placed under the control of the government 
of Guam, to be administered for the benefit of the people of Guam, and 
the legislature shall have authority, subject to such limitations as may 
be imposed upon its acts by this chapter or subsequent Act of the 
Congress, to legislate with respect to such property, real and personal, 
in such manner as it may deem desirable.

(c) Secretary of the Interior; sale or lease

    All property owned by the United States in Guam, the title to which 
is not transferred to the government of Guam by subsection (a) of this 
section, or which is not placed under the control of the government of 
Guam by subsection (b) of this section, is transferred to the 
administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, except as 
the President may from time to time otherwise prescribe: Provided, That 
the Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized to lease or to sell, 
on such terms as he may deem in the public interest, any property, real 
and personal, of the United States under his administrative supervision 
in Guam not needed for public purposes.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 28, 64 Stat. 392; Pub. L. 90-497, 
Sec. 12(b), Sept. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 848.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 90-497 substituted ``The Secretary of the 
Interior'' for ``the head of the department or agency designated by the 
President under section 1421a of this title'' in text of subsec. (c) and 
``the Secretary of the Interior'' for ``the head of such department or 
agency'' in proviso.


                    Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-497 necessary to authorize the holding of an 
election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on Nov. 3, 1970, effective 
Jan. 1, 1970, and all other amendments unless otherwise provided 
effective Jan. 4, 1971, see section 13 of Pub. L. 90-497, set out as a 
note under section 1422 of this title.

 Ex. Ord. No. 10178. Reservation of Property in Guam for Use of United 
                                 States

    Ex. Ord. No. 10178, eff. Oct. 30, 1950, 15 F.R. 7313, provided:
    NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said 
section 28 of the Organic Act of Guam [this section] and as President of 
the United States, it is ordered as follows:
    1. The following-described real and personal property of the United 
States in Guam is hereby reserved to the United States and placed under 
the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy: Provided, 
That the Secretary of the Navy shall transfer such portions of such 
property to the Department of the Army, the Department of the Air Force, 
and the Coast Guard as may be required for their respective purposes:
    (a) All of that real property in Guam situated within the perimeter 
areas defined in the following-designated condemnation proceedings in 
the Superior Court of Guam, being the same property quitclaimed by the 
Naval Government of Guam to the United States of America by deed dated 
July 31, 1950, and filed for record with the Land Registrar of Guam on 
August 4, 1950 (Presentation No. 22063):

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Condemnation
  proceedings     Perimeter                    Facility
   Civil No.        area
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Acres
          2-48     4,566.757  North Field.
          5-48         9.372  Mt. Santa Rosa Water Reservoir and Supply
                               Lines.
          6-48         5.990  Mt. Santa Rosa-Marbo Water Lines.
          7-48         5.990  Tumon Maui Well Site.
          2-49     4,803.000  Naval Ammunition Depot.
          3-49        44.651  Primary Transmission Line.
          4-49        12.169  Mt. Santa Rosa-Marbo Water Line Easement.
          5-49     6,332.000  Apra Harbor Reservation.
          2-50         6.450  Aceorp Tunnel.
          3-50        35.391  Camp Dealy.
          4-50         0.637  Tumon Bay Recreation Area Utility Lines.
          5-50        24.914  Agana Springs.
          6-50        41.360  Asan Point Tank Farm.
          7-50        85.032  Asan Point Housing.
          8-50       137.393  Medical Center.
          9-50        45.630  Agafo Gumas.
         10-50     4,798.682  Naval Communication Station.
         11-50        11.726  Nimitz Beach.
         12-50       800.443  Command Center.
         13-50     4,901.100  Tarague Natural Wells.
         14-50         5.945  Agana Diesel Electric Generating plant.
         15-50        23.708  Mt. Santa Rosa Haul Road, Water Reservoir
                               and Supply Lines, VHF Relay Station, Mt.
                               Santa Rosa-Marbo Water Line.
         16-50     4,562.107  Northwest Air Force Base.
         18-50        60.480  Marbo Base Command Area--Sewage Disposal.
         19-50        21.695  Loran Station, Cocos Island.
         20-50        15.322  Av-Gas Tank Farm 1B12.
         21-50     1,820.148  Proposed Boundary of NAS Agana, Housing
                               Area 1B7.
         22-50        37.519  C. A. A. Site (Area 1B90.)
         23-50         3.575  Tumon Maui Well (Water Tunnel).
         24-50        49.277  Tumon Bay Recreation Area (Road and AV-Gas
                               Fuel Line Parcel 1B1.
         25-50         0.208  Utility Easement from Rt. 1B1 to Rt. 1B6
                               Coontz Junction).
         26-50        65.300  Tumon Bay Recreation Area (Area 1B78).
         27-50     2,497.400  Marbo Base Command.
         28-50         0.918  Mt. Tenjo VHF Station Site.
         29-50       285.237  Sasa Valley Tank Farm (Area 1B78).
         30-50        17.793  Sub Transmission System Piti Steam Plant
                               to Command Center.
         31-50        28.888  Route 1B1 (Marine Drive) (Portion).
         32-50        94.000  Sub Transmission System (34 KV Line) Piti
                               Steam Plant to Agana Diesel Plant and POL
                               System Sasa Valley Tank Farm to NAS
                               Agana.
         33-50       953.000  Harmon Air Force Base.
         34-50     2,922.000  Radio Barrigada.
         35-50        25.000  AACS Radio Range (Area 1B30).
         36-50        37.000  Water Line Apra Heights Reservoir to Fena
                               Pump Station and Av-Gas Fuel System.
         37-50     2,185.000  Fena River Reservoir.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (b) The road system and utilities systems described in the said deed 
between the Naval Government of Guam and the United States of America 
dated July 31, 1950.
    (c) The following-described areas: Mount Lam Lam Light; Rear Range 
Light; Mount Aluton Light; Area Number 35 Culverts; Mount Santa Rosa 
Light; 36 acres of Camp Witek; Adelup Reservoir; Tripartite Seismograph 
Station Site, Land Unit M, Section 2, Land Square 20; the Power Sub-
station located on Lot 266, Municipality of Agat adjacent to Erskine 
Drive, City of Agat.
    (d) Lots 2285-5 and 2306-1 in Barrigada.
    (e) All personal property relating to or used in connection with any 
of the above-described real property.
    2. The following-described real property of the United States in 
Guam is hereby reserved to the United States and transferred to the 
administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, and shall 
be available for disposition by the Secretary of the Interior in his 
discretion under section 28(c) of the said Organic Act of Guam 
[subsection (c) of this section]:
    All of those lands which have been selected by the Secretary of the 
Navy for transfer or sale pursuant to the act of November 15, 1945, 59 
Stat. 584, to persons in replacement of lands acquired for military or 
naval purposes in Guam, a list and description of such lands being on 
file in the Department of the Navy.
    3. In addition to the personal property described in paragraph 1(e) 
hereof, there is hereby reserved to the United States all personal 
property of the United States in Guam, except that which is transferred 
to the government of Guam by or pursuant to section 28 (a) of the 
Organic Act of Guam, which on the date of this order is in the custody 
or control of the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, 
the Department of the Air Force, the Coast Guard, or any other 
department or agency of the United States; and all such personal 
property shall remain in the custody and control of the department or 
agency having custody and control thereof on the date of this order.
                                                         Harry S Truman.
