[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 134 (Thursday, July 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 36158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17184]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[NM-010-1430-01]
Realty Action on Proposed Land Disposal in Rio Arriba County, New
Mexico
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Realty Action on Proposed Land Disposal.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise the public that the Albuquerque
District, of the Bureau of Land Management, is proposing to dispose of
approximately 54.52 acres of public land near the Village of Dixon
within Rio Arriba County, State of New Mexico.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM has determined that the acres of
public land described below are suitable for disposal under the Color-
of-Title Acts of 1928 (45 Stat. 1069), 1932 (47 State. 53; 43 U.S.C.
178), Sales under Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 (FLPMA), 43 U.S.C. 1713 (1976), and the Recreation and
Public Purposes Act of 1926, as amended (43 U.S.C. 869 et seq.), and
Section 211 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
(FLPMA).
New Mexico Principal Meridian
Dixon III, New Mexico Public Land Disposal Block T. 23 N., R. 10 E.,
Sec. 26: lot 17;
Sec. 27: lots 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62;
Sec. 34: lots 1, 4, 5;
Sec. 35: lots 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,
34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,
53, 54, 55, 57, 59.
Comprising approximately 54.52 acres.
Disposal of these lands is consistent with: (1) Taos Resource
Management Plan approved in October 1988. (2) Their location as well as
the physical characteristics and the private ownership of adjoining
lands, make them difficult and uneconomical to manage as public lands,
make them difficult and uneconomical to manage as public lands, so
disposal would est serve public interest, (3) This Notice of Realty
Action will be published once a week for three weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation and will be sent to the New Mexico Congressional
Delegation and the relevant congressional committees by BLM. The
specific parcels of public land will be disposed of using the following
``Tract Disposal Criteria'' in descending order of priority:
1. Color-of-Title. Color-of-Title disposal will be made to any
applicant within the disposal area who qualifies under the Color-of-
Title Acts.
2. Non-Competitive (Direct) Sale. Public lands within the disposal
block will be sold without competition at Fair Market Value to those
individuals who occupied the parcels before June 11, 1979 (the date
land use plans were approved) but who do not qualify for title under
the Color-of-Title Act.
The terms and conditions applicable to the disposal are:
1. The patents will contain a reservation to the United States for
ditches and canals.
2. All disposals are for surface estate only. The patents will
contain a reservation to the United States for all minerals.
3. Tracts which lie within the 100 year floodplain of the Rio
Embudo will be subject to EO 11988 which precludes the seeking of
compensation from the United States or its agencies in the event
existing or future facilities on those tracts are damaged by flood.
4. All disposal will be made subject to prior existing rights.
Additional information pertaining to this disposal including the
environmental documents are available for review at the Taos Resource
Area Office, Plaza Montevideo, 224 Cruz Alta Road, Taos, New Mexico
87571, or telephone (505) 758-8851. For a period of 45 days from the
date of this notice, interested parties may submit written comments to
the Taos Resource Area Manager. Any adverse comments will be evaluated
by the New Mexico State Director, Bureau of Land Management, who may
vacate or modify this realty action and issue a final determination.
In the absence of any action by the State Director, this realty
action will become the final determination of the Department of the
Interior.
Dated: June 16, 1995.
Sue E. Richardson,
District Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-17184 Filed 7-12-95; 8:45 am]
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