[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 45 (Monday, March 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10742-10743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5098]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NM-070-1430-01; NMNM 108654]


Notice of Realty Action--Recreation and Public Purpose (R&PP) Act 
Classification, San Juan County, NM

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

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SUMMARY: The following described public lands in San Juan County, New 
Mexico have been examined and found suitable for classification for 
lease or conveyance to the City of Farmington under the provisions of 
the Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 
869 et seq.). City of Farmington proposes to use the land for a 
neighborhood park.

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 April 22, 2004. The Bureau of 
Land Management, Farmington Field Manager, 1235 La Plata Highway, Suite 
A, Farmington, New Mexico 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 May 7, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathy Ollom, Realty Specialist, at the 
Bureau of Land Management, Farmington Field Office, (505) 599-8914. 
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, Farmington, NM 87401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The City of Farmington has proposed to use 
the land for a neighborhood park.

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 29 N., R. 14 W.
    Sec. 11, lots 1 and 3.

    Containing 10.09 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 March 8, 2006. The segregative 
effect will terminate upon issuance of the patent to City of 
Farmington, or March 8, 2006, 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

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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 its 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 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 neighborhood park for the 
surrounding public use.

    Dated: October 23, 2003.
Joel E. Farrell,
Acting Field Office Manager.
[FR Doc. 04-5098 Filed 3-5-04; 8:45 am]
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