[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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