Section 5. (a) The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and the Departments of Environmental Resources and Transportation, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the Mid-State Regional Airport Authority, for a consideration of $1 and other valuable consideration, the following tract of land situate in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situated in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point northwest of the northern boundary of the access road to Pennsylvania Route No.504, which point is 5,200 feet in a southwestern direction from the intersection of the access road and Pennsylvania Route 504, the following courses and distances: (1) south 23 degrees 48 minutes 07 seconds east a distance of 3,720.88 feet to a point; (2) south 40 degrees 04 minutes 16 seconds east a distance of 449.23 feet to a point; (3) north 49 degrees 55 minutes 44 seconds east a distance of 1,160.00 feet to a point; (4) south 40 degrees 04 minutes 16 seconds east a distance of 100.00 feet to a point; (5) south 49 degrees 55 minutes 44 seconds west a distance of 1,160.00 feet to a point; (6) south 40 degrees 04 minutes 16 seconds east a distance of 449.23 feet to a point; (7) south 49 degrees 55 minutes 44 seconds west a distance of 1,539.98 feet to a point; (8) south 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds east a distance of 2,650.00 feet to a point; (9) south 66 degrees 17 minutes 53 seconds west a distance of 1,500.00 feet to a point; (10) north 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds west a distance of 1,900.00 feet to a point; (11) north 76 degrees 53 minutes 44 seconds west a distance of 359.54 feet to a point; (12) south 49 degrees 55 minutes 44 seconds west a distance of 2,246.98 feet to a point; (13) north 40 degrees 04 minutes 16 seconds west a distance of 999.46 feet to a point; (14) north 49 degrees 55 minutes 44 seconds east a distance of 2,606.98 feet to a point; (15) north 13 degrees 06 minutes 49 seconds east a distance of 352.24 feet to a point; (16) north 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds west a distance of 4,280.00 feet to a point; (17) north 45 degrees 40 minutes 00 seconds east a distance of 582.00 feet to a point; (18) north 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds west a distance of 1,420.00 feet to a point; (19) north 66 degrees 17 minutes 53 seconds east a distance of 100.00 feet to a point; (20) north 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds west a distance of 1,615.00 feet to a point; (21) north 66 degrees 17 minutes 53 seconds east a distance of 200.00 feet to a point; (22) south 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds east a distance of 1,615.00 feet to a point; (23) north 66 degrees 17 minutes 53 seconds east a distance of 100.00 feet to a point; (24) south 23 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds east a distance of 1,600.00 feet to a point; (25) north 66 degrees 17 minutes 53 seconds east a distance of 1,764.55 feet to the point and place of beginning.
Containing 496.68 acres, more or less.
As shown on a plan of property of the Mid-State Airport of the Department of Environmental Resources, Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, dated May 1984 and revised January 1985, and numbered 3079.
(b) The conveyance shall be made under and subject to the conditions in subsections (c) and (d) and to all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and rights of telephone, telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
(c) Any development on the airport property that is not related to aviation activities must be approved in writing by the Department of Environmental Resources before the plan of development is implemented.
(d) The Department of Environmental Resources shall retain the use of the air operations building and shall maintain full access to the said premises by land and by air for wildfire attack operations, without charge of any kind, and nothing shall diminish the ability of the Department of Environmental Resources to contain its wildfire attack operations at the said premises, including continued use of The Pennsylvania State University's water well, with pipeline access thereto, as the primary water source for loading tankers. In the event future development on the premises requires relocation of the air operations building, the Mid-State Regional Airport Authority may relocate the necessary premises with the approval of the Department of Environmental Resources.
(e) The deed of conveyance shall be approved as provided by law and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(f) The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause that the lands conveyed shall be used for airport purposes by the Mid-State Regional Airport Authority and, if at any time the authority or its successor in function conveys said property or permits said property to be used for any purpose other than those aforementioned, the title thereto shall immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(g) Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
Compiler's Note: The Department of Environmental Resources, referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 18 of 1995. Its functions were transferred to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Protection.