[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 250 (Friday, December 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68290-68291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32907]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-050-97-1430-01; AZA 29058]
Arizona; Notice of Realty Action
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Classification of Public Land for Recreation and Public
Purposes Lease/Conveyance, La Paz County, Arizona.
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SUMMARY: The following described public land has been examined and
found suitable for classification for lease and conveyance under the
Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 869 et
seq.):
Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona
T. 3 N., R. 19 W.,
sec. 20, S\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
Containing 5 acres, more or less.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Quartzsite, Arizona, Fire Department has
filed an R&PP application amending their original legal description for
a fire station (Fire Station #3) that would be located in La Paz Valley
along County 53rd Street North approximately 6 miles south of
Quartzsite. A facility is needed in this part of the Fire District to
serve the nearby subdivision which currently has no fire station. This
land is identified in the Yuma District Resource Management Plan, as
amended, as having potential for disposal. Leave and conveyance of the
land for recreational or public purposes would be in the public
interest.
Lease and conveyance, when issued, will contain the following
reservations to the United States:
1. Rights-of-way for ditches and canals constructed by the
authority of the United States.
2. All minerals shall be reserved to the United States, together
with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove such deposits from the
same under applicable law and regulations to be established by the
Secretary of the Interior.
And will be subject to:
1. The provisions of the R&PP Act and all applicable regulations of
the Secretary of the Interior.
2. Those rights for a public road granted to the La Paz County
Department of Public Works (AZA 25925).
3. Those rights for a buried telephone cable granted to
Southwestern Telephone Company (AZA 22967).
Upon publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the land
will be segregated from all forms of appropriation under the public
land laws, including the general mining laws, except for lease and
conveyance under the R&PP Act, leasing under the mineral
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leasing laws, and material disposal laws.
CLASSIFICATION COMMENTS: For a period of 45 days from the date of
publication of this Notice in the Federal Register, interested parties
may submit comments to the Field Manager, Yuma Field Office, 2555 E.
Gila Ridge Road, Yuma, Arizona 85365. Comments should address the
suitability of the land for a fire station. Comments on the
classification are restricted to whether the land is physically suited
for the above mentioned use, whether the use will maximize the future
use or uses of the land, whether the use is consistent with local
planning and zoning, or if the use is consistent with State and Federal
programs.
APPLICATION COMMENTS: Interested parties may submit comments regarding
the specific use proposed in the application and plan of development,
whether the Bureau of Land Management followed proper administrative
procedures in reaching the decision, or any other factor not directly
related to the suitability of the land for a fire station.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Any adverse comments will be reviewed by the Arizona
State Director. In the absence of any adverse comments, the
classification of the land described in this Notice will become
effective February 25, 1997. The lands will not be offered for lease
and conveyance until after the classification becomes effective.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Curtis, Realty Specialist, Yuma
Field Office, 2555 E. Gila Ridge Road, Yuma, AZ 85365, telephone (520)
317-3237.
Dated: December 17, 1996.
Gail Acheson,
Field Manager, Yuma.
[FR Doc. 96-32907 Filed 12-26-96; 8:45 am]
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