[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 226 (Monday, November 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 65947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-29205]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NM-070-1430-01; NMNM108615]


Notice of Realty Action; Recreation and Public Purpose (R&PP) Act 
Classification, Rio Arriba County, NM

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

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SUMMARY: The following described public land is determined suitable for 
classification for leasing or conveyance to the Jemez Mountain School 
District, Gallina, New Mexico under the provisions of the Recreation 
and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 869 et seq.).

DATES: Interested parties may submit comments regarding the proposed 
leasing/conveyance or classification of the lands to the Bureau of Land 
Management at the following address until January 8, 2004. The Bureau 
of Land Management, Farmington Field Manager, 1235 La Plata Highway, 
Farmington, NM 87401, who may sustain, vacate, or modify this realty 
action, will review any adverse comments. In the absence of any adverse 
comments, this realty action becomes the final determination of the 
Department of the Interior and effective on January 23, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Jo Albin, Realty Specialist, at 
the Bureau of Land Management, Farmington Field Office, at (505) 599-
6332. Information related to this action, including the environmental 
assessment, is available for review at the Bureau of Land Management, 
Farmington Field Office, 1235 La Plata Highway, and Farmington, NM 
87401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Jemez Mountain School District proposes 
to use the land for a school with related buildings and educational 
facilities.

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 23 N., R. 6 W.,
    Sec. 17: SW\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    Containing 40 acres, more or less.
    Publication of this notice segregates the public land described 
above from all other forms of appropriation under the public land laws, 
including the general mining laws, except for leasing and conveyance 
under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act and leasing under the 
mineral leasing laws for a period until November 25, 2005. The 
segregative affect will terminate upon issuance of the lease and patent 
to the Jemez Mountain School District or November 25, 2005, whichever 
occurs first.
    The lease, when issued, will be subject to the following terms:
    1. Provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act and to all 
applicable regulations of the Secretary of the Interior.
    2. Provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 
(RCRA) as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6901-6987 and the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) 
as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9601 and all applicable regulations.
    3. Provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    4. Provisions that the lease be operated in compliance with the 
approved Development Plan.
    The patent, when issued, will be subject to the following terms:
    1. Reservation to the United States of a right-of-way for ditches 
and canals in accordance with 43 U.S.C. 945.
    2. Reservation to the United States of all minerals.
    3. All valid existing rights, e.g., rights-of-way and leases of 
record.
    4. Provisions that if the patentee or its successor attempts to 
transfer title to or control over the land to another or the land is 
devoted to a use other than that for which the land was conveyed, 
without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior or his delegate, 
or prohibits or restricts, directly or indirectly, or permits it 
agents, employees, contractors, or subcontractors, including without 
limitation, lessees, sublessees and permittees, to prohibit or 
restrict, directly or indirectly, the use of any part of the patented 
lands or any of the facilities whereon by any person because of such 
person's race, creed, color, or national origin, title shall revert to 
the United States.
    Leasing and later patenting is consistent with current Bureau of 
Land Management policies and land use planning. The proposal serves the 
public interest since it would provide a school with educational 
facilities that would meet the needs of the surrounding Navajo Indian 
population.

    Dated: October 8, 2003.
Joel E. Farrell,
Assistant Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 03-29205 Filed 11-21-03; 8:45 am]
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