[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 2639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-113]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-030-1430-00] ES-50581, Group 547, Minnesota


Notice of Filing of Plat of an Island; Minnesota

    1. The plat of the survey of an island in Seretha Lake, Township 
152 North, Range 27 West, Fifth Principal Meridian, Minnesota, accepted 
on January 6, 2000, will be officially filed in Eastern States, 
Springfield, Virginia at 7:30 a.m., on February 22, 2000. The tract 
shown below describe the island omitted from the original survey.

Fifth Principal Meridian, Minnesota

T. 152 N. R. 27 W.
    Tract No. 37.

    2. Tract No. 37 is firm land rising 15 ft. above the ordinary high 
water mark. The soil has evolved from glacial till parent material and 
is similar to the soil found on the adjacent uplands. Tree species 
consist of birch, cedar, fir and spruce, ranging in size from 3 to 20 
inches in diameter. A White Birch, 20 inches in diameter, located near 
the center of the island was approximately 90+ years of age. The ground 
cover consists of alder, hazel, willow and native grasses on the 
southerly and easterly shore line.
    3. The present water level of the lake compares favorably with that 
of the original meander line; therefore, the elevation and upland 
character of the island along with the depth and width of the lake 
between the adjacent upland and the island are considered evidence that 
the island did exist in 1858, the year Minnesota was admitted to the 
Union. The original survey in 1896 did not note the presence of this 
island.
    4. Tract No. 37 is more than 50 percent upland in character within 
the interpretation of the Swamp and Overflow Act of September 28, 1850 
(9 Stat. 519) as extended to the State of Minnesota under the Act of 
March 12, 1860 (12 Stat. 3). Therefore, the island is held to be public 
land.
    5. The survey was requested by the Assistant Field Manager, 
Division of Natural Resource Management, under the authority of Section 
211 of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1721) and the Minnesota Public Lands 
Improvement Act of 1990, P.L. 101-442 (104 Stat. 1020).
    6. Except for valid existing rights, this island will not be 
subject to application, petition, location or selection under any 
public law until February 22, 2000.
    7. Interested parties protesting the determination that these 
islands are public land of the United States, must present valid proof 
showing that the island in question did not exist at the time of 
statehood or that it was attached to the mainland at the time of the 
original survey. Such protests must be submitted in writing to the 
Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Eastern States, Bureau of Land Management, 
7450 Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153, prior to 7:30 a.m., 
February 22, 2000.
    Copies of the plat will be made available upon request and 
prepayment of the appropriate fee.

    Dated: January 6, 2000.
Stephen G. Kopach,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor.
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