2011-23473. Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; Montana

AGENCY:

Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of filing of plats of survey.

SUMMARY:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of survey of the lands described below in the BLM Montana State Office, Billings, Montana, on October 14, 2011.

DATES:

Protests of the survey must be filed before October 14, 2011 to be considered.

ADDRESSES:

Protests of the survey should be sent to the Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101-4669.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marvin Montoya, Cadastral Surveyor, Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101-4669, telephone [phone] or [phone], [e-mail]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This survey was executed at the request of the Regional Director, Rocky Mountain Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and was necessary to determine the boundaries of individual and tribal trust lands.

The lands we surveyed are:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 3 S., R. 44 E.

The plat, in two sheets, representing the dependent resurvey of portions of the subdivisional lines, the adjusted original meanders of the former right bank of the Tongue River, downstream, through a portion of section 3, the corrective dependent resurvey of a portion of the subdivision of section 3, and the subdivision of section 3, and the survey of the meanders of the present right bank of the Tongue River, downstream, through a portion of section 3, the meanders of the former right bank of a relicted channel of the Tongue River, downstream, through a portion of section 3, the medial line of a relicted channel of the Tongue River, in section 3, and a certain division of accretion line, Township 3 South, Range 44 East, Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted August 8, 2011.

We will place a copy of the plat, in two sheets, and related field notes we described in the open files. They will be available to the public as a matter of information. If the BLM receives a protest against this survey, as shown on this plat, in two sheets, prior to the date of the official filing, we will stay the filing pending our consideration of the protest. We will not officially file this plat, in two sheets, until the day after we have accepted or dismissed all protests and they have become final, including decisions or appeals.

Authority: 43 U.S.C. Chap. 3.

James D. Claflin,

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of Resources.