[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3383]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UT-040-08-1430-00; UTU-75154]


Notice of Realty Action; Recreation and Public Purpose Conveyance

SUMMARY: The following described public land in Garfield County, Utah 
has been examined and found suitable for lease or conveyance under the 
provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act (43 U.S.C. 
869 et seq.). The land to be leased or conveyed and the proposed 
patentee is:
    Patentee: Boulder Town, Utah
    Location: Salt Lake Meridian, Utah T. 33S., R.4E., sec. 25 & 26, 
Tract 37, containing 7.5 acres.
    This land is hereby segregated from all forms of appropriation 
under the public land laws, including the mining laws.
    The town of Boulder, Utah proposes to use this land to construct a 
community recreation and visitor center. The land is not needed for 
Federal purposes. Conveyance or lease is consistent with current BLM 
land use planning and would be in the public interest. The patent when 
issued will be subject to the following terms, conditions and 
reservations:
    1. All minerals, including oil and gas, shall be reserved to the 
United States, together with the right to prospect for, mine and remove 
the same.
    2. A right-of-way will be reserved for ditches and canals 
constructed by the authority of the United States (Act of August 30, 
1890, 26 Stat. 391; 43 U.S.C. 945).
    3. The conveyance will be subject to all valid rights and 
reservations of record.
    4. The town of Boulder assumes all liability for and shall defend, 
indemnify, and save harmless the United States and its officers, 
agents, representatives, and employees (hereinafter referred to as the 
United States), from all claims, loss, damage, actions, causes of 
action, expense, and liability resulting from, brought for, or on 
account of, any personal injury, threat of personal injury, or property 
damage received or sustained by any person or persons (including the 
patentee's employees) or property growing out of, occurring, or the 
release of hazardous substances from the above listed land, regardless 
of whether such claims shall be attributable to: (1) the concurrent, 
contributory, or partial fault, failure, or negligence of the United 
States, or (2) the sole fault, failure, or negligence of the United 
States.
    5. Title may revert to the United States upon a finding, after 
notice and opportunity for a hearing, that the patentee has not 
substantially developed the lands in accordance with the approved plan 
of development on or before the date five years after the date of 
conveyance.

DATES: Interested persons may submit comments regarding the proposed 
lease or conveyance of the land to the Area Manager, Escalante Resource 
Area Office, P. O. Box 225, Escalante, Utah 84726. Comments will be 
accepted until March 30, 1998. Any Adverse comments will be reviewed by 
the State Director who may vacate or modify this realty action and 
issue a final determination. In the absence of any adverse comments, 
this notice will become the final determination of the Department of 
the Interior on April 13, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Detailed information concerning this 
action is available for review at the Escalante Resource Area office by 
contacting Darrell ``Butch'' Olsen, P. O. Box 225, Escalante, Utah 
84726, or telephone (801) 826-4291.

    Dated: January 16, 1998.
Gregg Christensen,
Area Manager.
[FR Doc. 98-3383 Filed 2-10-98; 8:45 am]
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