[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 43 (Friday, March 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12131-12132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4971]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNV920000 L91310000.PP0000 241A, 11-08807; N-89307; 
MO4500019300; TAS: 14X5575]


Notice of Realty Action: Opening of Public Land in Elko County, 
NV

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

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SUMMARY: This Notice opens 320 acres of public land located in Elko 
County, Nevada, to leasing under applicable geothermal leasing laws 
subject to valid existing rights and reserved interest in the land.

DATES: Effective Date: March 4, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Bureau of Land Management, Elko District Office, Wells Field 
Office, 3900 East Idaho Street, Elko, Nevada 89801.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Fuell, Field Manager, Wells 
Field Office, at the above address, telephone: (775) 753-0210 or e-
mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject land was re-conveyed to the 
United States by Grant Deed dated May 28, 1952, as part of a land 
exchange completed under Section 8 of the Taylor Grazing Act, reserving 
to the grantor all

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``petroleum, gas, asphaltum and other hydrocarbons.'' A decision dated 
August 11, 1952, states that the United States accepted title of the 
re-conveyed lands with ``a reservation of minerals.'' Section 8 of the 
Taylor Grazing Act required that an Opening Order be published before 
the United States could open the re-conveyed lands to mineral entry, 
leasing, or other public land laws for the minerals not reserved to the 
private party in the 1952 deed. An Opening Order, dated November 6, 
1958 (23 FR 8674) was issued on the re-conveyed lands, however, the 
Order did not explicitly include the applicable geothermal leasing 
laws. The subject land is described as follows:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 38 N., R. 59 E.,
    sec. 13, E\1/2\.

    The area described contains 320 acres, more or less, in Elko 
County.
    On publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the lands 
described shall be opened to the operation of the geothermal leasing 
laws, 30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq., subject to valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law.
    This proposed action is in compliance with the Bureau of Land 
Management Wells Resource Management Plan approved July 7, 1985, and 
meets Departmental criteria for a categorical exclusion from the 
National Environmental Policy Act and its requirement to prepare either 
an Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement.

    Authority: 43 CFR part 2370.

Amy Lueders,
State Director, Nevada.
[FR Doc. 2011-4971 Filed 3-3-11; 8:45 am]
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