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[CITE: 7USC389]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
              CHAPTER 14--AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
  SUBCHAPTER II--EXPERIMENT STATIONS FOR PROPAGATION OF TREES, SHRUBS, 
                          VINES, AND VEGETABLES
 
Sec. 389. Transfer of certain dry land and irrigation field 
        stations to States
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, at such times as he 
deems appropriate, to convey by appropriate conveyances, without 
consideration, the interest of the United States in the lands, including 
water rights, buildings, and improvements presently comprising or 
appurtenant to the following dry land and irrigation field stations, to 
the States in which such stations are located, when, in the opinion of 
the Secretary of Agriculture, the transfer of any such station will 
result in establishing a more effective program in the cooperative 
agricultural experimental work of the Department of Agriculture and the 
respective State and the furtherance of agricultural experimental work 
on a national or regional basis will be better served by such transfer: 
Huntley, Montana; Mitchell, Nebraska; Fallon, Nevada; Tucumcari, New 
Mexico; Hermiston, Oregon; Sheridan, Wyoming: Provided, That when any or 
all of the land, including water rights, comprising any such station is 
public-domain land, only the Secretary of the Interior may by patent or 
other appropriate conveyance transfer such lands to the respective 
States: Provided further, That when any easement necessary to a station 
conveyed or patented hereunder is on public-domain lands, only the 
Secretary of the Interior may grant such easements to the State to which 
the station has been conveyed.

(Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1005, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 981.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of 
Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 
F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 389a of this title.
