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16 U.S.C. § 391cWithdrawal of lands for use as bombing target range

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This section describes a roughly 6,450-acre tract inside Hawaii National Park. Part of that tract can move from the Interior Department to the Air Force, if both secretaries agree. The Air Force can then use it as a bombing range or for other military purposes it sets.

This section describes a tract of roughly 6,450 acres on the island of Hawaii, inside Hawaii National Park, fixed by a precise government survey — a series of compass bearings and distances running from a marked starting point (Na Puu O na Elemakule) across the Kau Desert plateau and along the Hilima Pali, closing back along the high-water line at the coast. As much of that tract as the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of the Interior agree on is withdrawn from the Interior Department's control and transferred to the Air Force. The Air Force may use that land as a bombing target range, and for any other military purpose the Secretary of the Air Force decides on.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Within a tract of land containing six thousand four hundred fifty acres, more or less, on the island of Hawaii in the Territory of Hawaii, located in the Hawaii National Park, created by sections 391, 393 and 394 of this title, and described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at a place called Na Puu O na Elemakule located at the southeastern corner of the Hawaii National Park, said point being marked by a triangle on a large flat stone, thence by azimuth (measured clockwise from true south) and distances as follows: Eighty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds, three thousand three hundred feet along the southern boundary of Hawaii National Park; one hundred and seventy-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty feet over and across Pali to a point on Kau Desert Plateau; two hundred and forty-three degrees fifty-seven minutes no seconds, eighteen thousand four hundred and fifty feet to a point located above Hilima Pali; three hundred and fifty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds, twelve thousand nine-hundred and ninety feet more or less to high-water line; thence in southwesterly direction along the high-water line to the point of beginning; containing an area of six thousand four hundred and fifty acres, more or less; there shall be withdrawn from the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of the Air Force so much thereof as may be agreed upon between the Secretaries of the Air Force and Interior for use as an Air Force bombing target range, and for such other military purposes and uses as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force.

Source credit: (July 16, 1940, ch. 630, 54 Stat. 761; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 207(a), (f), 61 Stat. 502, 503.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1940Enacted · Act of July 16, 1940, ch. 630 · 54 Stat. 761
  • 1947Amended · Act of July 26, 1947, ch. 343 · 61 Stat. 502, 503

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 630 on 1940-07-16.

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