[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1988 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1988

To provide for the release of interests of the United States in certain 
                real property located in Augusta, Maine.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 24, 1998

Ms. Collins (for herself and Ms. Snowe) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the release of interests of the United States in certain 
                real property located in Augusta, Maine.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RELEASE OF INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY, FORMER KENNEBEC 
              ARSENAL, AUGUSTA, MAINE.

    (a) Requirement.--The Secretary of the Army shall release, without 
consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in 
and to the real property described in subsection (b).
    (b) Covered Property.--The real property referred to in subsection 
(a) is the parcel of real property consisting of approximately 40 acres 
located in Augusta, Maine, and formerly known as the Kennebec Arsenal, 
which parcel was conveyed by the Secretary of War to the State of Maine 
under the provisions of the Act entitled ``An Act Authorizing the 
Secretary of War to convey the Kennebec Arsenal property, situated in 
Augusta, Maine, to the State of Maine for public purposes'', approved 
March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1270), as amended by section 771 of the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1981 (Public Law 96-527; 94 
Stat. 3093).
    (c) Instrument of Release.--The Secretary of the Army shall execute 
and file in the appropriate office a deed of release, amended deed, or 
other appropriate instrument effectuating the release of interests 
required by this section.
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