[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 199 (Monday, October 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53642-53643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25525]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Notice of Realty Action, Proposed Exchange, Rocky Mountain
National Park, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of realty action.
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SUMMARY: Notice of Realty Action, Proposed exchange of Federally-owned
interests in water for municipally-owned interests in land and water,
Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand and Larimer Counties, Colorado.
I
The following described Federally-owned interests in water,
assigned to the National Park Service for the use of Rocky Mountain
National Park, have been determined to be suitable for disposal by
exchange. The authority for this exchange is the Act of July 15, 1968
(16 U.S.C. 460l-22).
These selected Federal interests in water are a portion of the 3
cubic feet per second (cfs) of water assigned to Rocky Mountain
National Park for park purposes under Article 24 of the 1938 Repayment
Contract between the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. It has been determined
that park purposes will be served by this exchange.
The Federally-owned interests in water to be exchanged are 0.85 cfs
not to exceed the total amount of 180 acre-feet annually, subject to
the terms and conditions of the Memorandum of Understanding and
Agreement between the National Park Service, the United States Bureau
of Reclamation, the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and
the City of Loveland, Colorado, dated August 7, 1995.
II
In exchange for the interests in water identified in Section I.,
the United States of America will acquire all right, title and interest
of the City of Loveland in and to the Eureka Ditch, including the
waters thereof. Acquisition of this ditch will enable the National Park
Service to eliminate the ditch and restore natural conditions and flows
to the watershed.
The Eureka Ditch is located within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain
National Park in Sections 6, 7, 17 and 18, Township 4 North, Range 74
West, 6th P.M., Grand and Larimer Counties, Colorado.
The interest to be acquired is a right-of-way for the construction,
operation and maintenance of a water diversion ditch originally granted
by the United States Department of the Interior on October 26, 1914, to
an unincorporated association of twenty (20) individuals, as follows:
Jerome Igo, William C. Levis, George M. Howard, Charles A. White, W.A.
Insinger, Arthur Strong, Samuel H. Southard, Burton D. Sanborn, Neill
Brothers, John M.B. Petrinkin, George M. Houston, Adolph Z. Solomon,
J.M. Ferguson. W.H. Farr, A.W. Durkee, A.A. Howard, C.A. Carlson, Peter
F. Daven, P.W. Putnam and S.A. Moore.
The value of the interests in land and water to be exchanged shall
be determined by a current fair market value appraisal and if they are
not approximately equal, the values shall be equalized by adjustment in
the interests to be exchanged as circumstances require.
Detailed information concerning this exchange including a precise
legal desciption of the ditch and the Memorandum of Understanding and
Agreement are available from the Realty Officer, Intermountain Field
Area, National Park Service, 12795 West Alameda Parkway, P.O. Box
25287, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287, (303) 969-2611.
For a period of 45 calendar days from the date of this notice,
interested parties may submit comments to the above address. Adverse
comments will be evaluated and this action may be modified or vacated
accordingly. In the absence of any action to modify or vacate, this
realty action will become the final determination of the Department of
the Interior.
Dated: September 28, 1995.
John E. Cook,
Field Director, Intermountain Field Area.
[FR Doc. 95-25525 Filed 10-13-95; 8:45 am]
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