[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27618-27619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13202]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Land Acquisitions; Klamath Tribes of Oregon
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of final agency determination to take land into trust
under 25 CFR part 151.
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SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs made a final agency
determination to acquire approximately 42.31 acres, more or less, of
land into trust for the Klamath Tribes of Oregon on May 14, 1997. This
notice is published in the exercise of authority delegated by the
Secretary of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs by
209 DM 8.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George T. Skibine, Director, Indian
Gaming Management Staff, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-2070 MIB, 1849 C
Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20240, telephone (202) 219-4066.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published to comply with the
requirement of 25 CFR 151.12(b) that notice be given to the public of
the Secretary's decision to acquire land in trust at least 30 days
prior to signatory acceptance of the land into trust. The purpose of
the 30-day waiting period in 25 CFR 151.12(b) is to afford interested
parties the opportunity to seek judicial review of final administrative
decisions to take land in trust for Indian tribes and individual
Indians before transfer of title to the property occurs. On May 14,
1997, the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs decided to accept
approximately 42.31 acres, more or less, of land into trust for the
Klamath Tribes of Oregon pursuant to Section 7 of the Klamath Indian
Tribe Restoration Act, 25 U.S.C. 566d. The Secretary shall acquire
title in the name of the United States in trust for the Klamath Tribes
of Oregon for the following parcel of land described below no sooner
than 30 days after the date of this notice.
A parcel of land containing 42.31 acres, more or less, situated in
Government Lots 22, 23, 28 and 33, Section 16, Township 35 South, Range
7 East of the Willamette Meridian, Klamath County, Oregon, being more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point, said point being the intersection of the
North line of Government Lot 23, Section 16, Township 35, Range 7 East
of the Willamette Meridian with the Easterly right of way line of
Highway 97 and marked with a \5/8\'' pin, from which the \1/4\ corner
common to Section 15 and 16, said Township and Range, bears North
89 deg. 33' 01'' East 2203.55 feet; thence along the North line of said
Government Lot 23 and the North line of Government Lot 22, said
Township and Range, North 89 deg. 33' 01'' East 1423.15 feet to the
Westerly mean high water line of the Williamson River; thence along
said mean high water line the following bearings and distances: South
2 deg. 23' 25'' West 39.36 feet; thence South 17 deg. 15' 25'' East
52.99 feet; thence South 28 deg. 02' 08'' East 76.89 feet; thence South
39 deg. 18' 40'' East 130.02 feet; thence South 57 deg. 22' 25'' East
202.38 feet; thence South 16 deg. 42' 10'' East 142.95 feet; thence
South 27 deg. 47' 45'' East 190.57 feet to a point on the South line of
said Government Lot 22, said point being marked by a \5/8\'' pin;
thence leaving said mean high water line along said South line of
Government Lot 22 North 90 deg. 00' 00'' West 951.85 feet to the
Northeast corner of Government Lot 28, said Township and Range, said
corner being marked by a \1/2\'' pin; thence along the East line of
said Government Lot 28 South 0 deg. 08' 48'' East 659.79 feet to the
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Southeast corner of said Government Lot 28, said corner being marked by
a \1/2\'' pin; thence along the South line of said Government Lot 28
South 89 deg. 49' 56'' West 454.20 feet to a \1/2\'' pin; thence
leaving said South line South 0 deg. 10' 04'' East 40.64 feet to a \3/
4\'' iron pipe; thence South 61 deg. 56' 56'' West 629.30 feet to a
point on said Easterly right of way line of Highway 97; thence along
said Easterly right of way line of Highway 97; thence along said
Easterly right of way line along the arc of a spiral curve to the
right, the chord of which bears North 0 deg. 53' 40'' West 119.80 feet,
to a \5/8\'' pin; thence continuing along said right of way line the
following bearings and distances: South 86 deg. 21' 30'' East 20.00
feet to a \5/8\'' iron pin; thence North 3 deg. 47' 20'' East 800.69
feet to a \5/8\'' iron pin; thence North 88 deg. 44' 24'' West 20.00
feet to a \5/8\'' pin; thence North 3 deg. 47' 54'' East 743.27 feet to
the point of beginning.
Title to the land described above will be conveyed subject to any
valid existing easements for public roads, highways, public utilities,
pipelines, and any other valid easements or rights-of-way now on
record.
Dated: May 14, 1997.
Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 97-13202 Filed 5-19-97; 8:45 am]
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