[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 164 (Thursday, August 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 43377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21430]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 82176]


Conveyance of Public Lands and Order Providing for Opening of 
Public Lands; Broadwater and Gallatin Counties; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This order informs the public and interested state and local 
governmental officials of the conveyance of 750.27 acres of public 
lands out of Federal ownership and will open 251.74 acres of surface 
estate reconveyed to the United States in an exchange under the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. (1988) 
to the operation of the public land laws. The lands acquired in the 
exchange contain significant riparian habitat and provide public 
fishing and river access. The public is well served through completion 
of this land exchange.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 11, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    1. Notice is hereby given that in an exchange of lands made 
pursuant to Section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1716 (1988), the following described lands were 
transferred to Huem Holding, Inc.:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 3 N., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 12, lots 6 and 7, and SW\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 4 N., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 12, lot 6;
    Sec. 26, W\1/2\;
    Sec. 34, E\1/2\.

    Total acreage conveyed: 750.27 acres.

    2. In the exchange for the above lands, the United States acquired 
the following described lands from Huem Holding, Inc., and Michael S. 
and Cynthia Huempfner:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 4 N., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 11, lots 1, 5, and 6, and SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 4 N., R. 3 E.,
    Sec. 7, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 18, lot 1 and NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, excepting therefrom, however, 
a strip of land extending through the same, or so much of such strip 
of land as may be within said described premises, of the width of 
400 feet, lying between two lines each drawn parallel to and distant 
200 feet from the center line of the main track of the Northern 
Pacific Railway Company, as the same is now located, constructed and 
operated on, over and across said described premises, or within 200 
feet of same.

    Total acreage acquired: 251.74 acres.

    3. The value of the Federal land was appraised at $52,000.00 and 
the private land was appraised at $52,150.00. The difference in value 
was waived and no equalization payment was made.
    4. At 9 a.m. on November 11, 1996, the lands described in paragraph 
2 will be opened only to the operation of the public land laws 
generally, subject to valid exiting rights and requirements of 
applicable law. All valid applications received at or prior to 9 a.m. 
on November 11, 1996, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing.

    Dated: August 13, 1996.
Thomas P. Lonnie,
Deputy State Director, Division of Resources.
[FR Doc. 96-21430 Filed 8-21-96; 8:45 am]
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