[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 202 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54083-54084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25879]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[NM-010-1430-01]


Realty Action on Proposed Land Disposal in Santa Fe 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 1.674 acres of public land near the Village of Rio 
Chiquito within Santa Fe 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 Stat. 53; 43 U.S.C. 
178), and Sales under Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), 43 U.S.C. 1713 (1976).

New Mexico Principal Meridian

Chimayo IV, New Mexico Public Land Disposal Block

T. 20 N., R. 10 E.,
    Sec. 5: lots 38 to 42, inclusive.

    Comprising of approximately 1.674 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, 
so disposal would best serve the 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 

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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 
Quemado 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 disposals 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, 226 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.

Michael R. Ford,
District Manager.
    Dated: Oct. 10, 1995.
[FR Doc. 95-25879 Filed 10-18-95; 8:45 am]
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