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may be utilized to the extent he finds such authority will 3 further the purposes of this Act.

4 SEC. 7. There are authorized to be appropriated not

5 to exceed $16,115,000 for acquisition of land and not to 6 exceed $12,102,000 for the development of the area as 7 provided for in this Act.

To provide for the establishment of the Buffalo National River

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in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That for the purposes of conserving and interpreting an area 4 containing unique scenic and scientific features, and preserv5 ing as a free-flowing stream an important segment of the 6 Buffalo River in Arkansas for the benefit and enjoyment of 7 present and future generations, the Secretary of the Interior 8 (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") may establish 9 and administer the Buffalo National River. The boundaries 10 of the national river shall be as generally depicted on the

11 drawing entitled, "Proposed Buffalo National River" num

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1 bered NR-BUF-7103 and dated December 1967, which 2 shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 3 offices of the National Park Service, Department of the 4 Interior. The Secretary may revise the boundaries of the 5 national river from time to time, but the total acreage within 6 such boundaries shall not exceed ninety-five thousand seven 7 hundred and thirty acres.

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SEC. 2. (a) Within the boundaries of the Buffalo National 9 River, the Secretary may acquire lands and waters or 10 interests therein by donation, purchase with donated or 11 appropriated funds, or exchange, except that lands owned 12 by the State of Arkansas or a political subdivision thereof 13 may be acquired only by donation. When an individual tract 14 of land is only partly within the boundaries of the national 15 river, the Secretary may acquire all of the tract by any of 16 the above methods in order to avoid the payment of sever17 ance costs. Land so acquired outside of the boundaries of 18 the national river may be exchanged by the Secretary for 19 non-Federal lands within the national river boundaries, and 20 any portion of the land not utilized for such exchanges may 21 be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the 22 Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 23 (63 Stat. 377; 40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.), as amended. With 24 the concurrence of the agency having custody thereof, any

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be transferred without consideration to the administra

3 tive jurisdiction of the Secretary for administration as part

4 of the national river.

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(b) With the exception of property that the Secretary 6 determines is necessary for purposes of administration, preser7 vation, or public use, any owner or owners (hereafter in 8 this section referred to as "owner") of (1) improved prop9 erty used solely for noncommercial residential purposes on the date of its acquisition by the Secretary or of (2) lands 11 used solely for agricultural purposes on such acquisition date 12 may retain the right of use and occupancy of such property 13 for such respective purposes for a term, as the owner may 14 elect, ending either (a) upon the death of the owner or his 15 spouse, whichever occurs later, or (b) not more than twenty16 five years from the date of acquisition. The Secretary shall 17 pay to the owner the fair market value of the property on 18 the date of such acquisition, less the fair market value on such 19 date of the term retained by the owner. Such right (1) shall 20 be subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary 21 deems appropriate to assure that the property is used in 22 accordance with the purposes of this Act, (2) may be trans23 ferred or assigned, and (3) may be terminated with respect 24 to the entire property by the Secretary upon his determi

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1 nation that the property or any portion thereof has ceased to 2 be used for noncommercial residential or agricultural pur

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poses, and upon tender to the holder of the right an amount 4 equal to the fair market value, as of the date of the tender, of 5 that portion of the right which remains unexpired on the date of termination.

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7 (c) As used in this section the term "improved prop8 erty" means a detached year-round one-family dwelling 9 which serves as the owner's permanent place of abode at the 10 time of acquisition, and construction of which was begun 11 before January 1, 1967, together with so much of the land on which the dwelling is situated, the said land being in the same ownership as the dwelling, as the Secretary shall desig14 nate to be reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of the 15 dwelling for the sole purpose of noncommercial residential 16 use: Provided, That the Secretary may exclude from any 17 improved property any waters or land fronting thereon, 18 together with so much of the land adjoining such waters or 19 land as he deems necessary for public access thereto.

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SEC. 3. The Secretary shall permit hunting and fishing

on lands and waters under his jurisdiction within the bound22 aries of the Buffalo National River in accordance with appli23 cable Federal and State laws, except that he may designate 24 zones where and establish periods when, no hunting or fish