[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 190 (Friday, October 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53405-53406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25525]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CA-940-0777-42; CACA 41111]


Notice of Potential Sale: Direct Sale requested by the Bridgeport 
Indian Colony, Bridgeport, California; Notice of Intent: To consider 
amending the Bishop Resource Management Plan, Bishop Field Office, 
California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior

ACTION: Notice of Intent to consider an amendment to the Bishop 
Resource Management Plan's list of public land disposal parcels, which 
would add a 40 acre parcel, and a Notice of Potential Direct Sale for 
the said 40 acres requested by the Bridgeport Indian Colony in Mono 
County, CA.

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SUMMARY: The BLM's Bishop Field Office has received an application from

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the Bridgeport Indian Colony to purchase at fair market value a 40 acre 
parcel adjacent to their existing reservation. The Tribe currently has 
a 40 acre reservation northeast of Bridgeport, Mono County, CA. The 
Tribe has been attempting to increase the size of their reservation to 
provide land for economic development, residential use and community 
services, including formal requests for withdrawal to the Bureau of 
Land Management as early as 1983. During development of the Bishop 
Resource Management Plan (approved March 1993), public land was 
identified for transfer to other tribal governments within the planning 
area. Despite the tribe's previously expressed interest in the adjacent 
40 acres, the parcel was not evaluated for disposal to the tribe. The 
tribe has now formally requested that this 40 acre parcel immediately 
adjacent to the existing reservation be made available to them through 
a direct sale under the authority of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act, Sec. 203 (43 USC 1713).
    The requested sale would involve the following lands located 
northeast of Bridgeport and adjacent to Highway 182 in the County of 
Mono, California:

Selected Federal Lands, requested to be Patented to the Bridgeport 
Indian Colony:

Mount Diablo Meridian, California,

T. 5N., R. 25 E.,
    Sec. 28, SW 1/4 of NE 1/4.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: A final decision on the sale proposal and the 
RMP amendment will be made following public comments and completion of 
an environmental analysis. The environmental analysis will evaluate a 
direct sale at fair market value and other alternatives. Factors to be 
considered include the proximity of the site to the Bridgeport Indian 
Colony reservation, the Department of the Interior's trust 
responsibilities to the Tribe, and the Rights-of-Way (ROW) encumbering 
the disposal parcel, some of which are held by the Bridgeport Tribe or 
directly support the Reservation. There are eight known ROWs within the 
40 acre parcel that the Tribe would have to accept. These include:

CAS 2240 SCE Powerline, 25' wide;
CAS 059135 GTE Telephone line, 30' wide;
CAS 053545 Caltrans Highway 182, 400' wide;
CACA 6432 GTE Underground telephone cable, 10' wide;
CACA 6044 Indian Health Srvs, Pipeline and Powerline, 60' wide;
CACA 4083 BIA Road, dike, ditch and fill area, 60' wide;
CACA 8757 Bridgeport PUC Pipeline, 50' wide;
CACA 5332 SCE Powerline, guy and anchor point, 25' wide.

    The following covenant would also be placed in the conveyance 
document: ``Authorized rights-of-way and other valid third party rights 
will be recognized. The Proponent will negotiate new easement/permit 
agreements with third party rights. Patents to selected public lands 
will be issued subject to any third party rights not successfully 
negotiated and replaced by a Proponent easement or permit.''
    Upon publication of this Notice in the Federal Register, the public 
lands described above are segregated from all forms of appropriation 
under the public land laws, including the mining laws for a period of 
270 days from the date of publication. The segregative effect shall 
terminate as provided by 43 CFR 2711.1-2(d).
    Detailed information concerning the RMP amendment and the requested 
sale is available at the BLM Bishop Field Office, 785 N. Main St. Suite 
E, Bishop, CA 93514 or by contacting Larry Primosch at (760) 872-4881.

    Comments: For a period of 45 days from the initial date of 
publication of this notice, interested parties may submit valid 
comments on the Bishop RMP amendment or the requested sale to the BLM 
Bishop Field Manager, 785 N. Main St. Suite E, Bishop, CA 93514. A 
public meeting will be held from 6-9 pm on October 12 at the Memorial 
Hall in the town of Bridgeport to gather comments and help define the 
issues which must be addressed in the environmental analysis.

    Dated: September 22, 1999.
Steve Addington,
Field Manager, Bishop Field Office.
[FR Doc. 99-25525 Filed 9-30-99; 8:45 am]
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