[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10832-10833]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04178]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNML00000.L71220000.EU0000 LVTFG11G4360; NMNM 125550]


Notice of Realty Action: Non-Competitive (Direct) Sale of Public 
Land in Otero County, NM

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer to sell a 
parcel of public land totaling 10 acres in Otero County, New Mexico. 
The BLM will consider a direct sale to Todd Taylor, the adjoining 
landowner, under the provisions of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), to resolve an inadvertent occupancy 
trespass. The BLM will not sell the parcel for less than the appraised 
fair market value of $49,000.

DATES: Interested parties may submit written comments regarding the 
proposed sale and received by the BLM on or before April 14, 2014.

ADDRESSES: You may submit written comments regarding the proposed sale 
by any of the following methods:
     Email: [email protected].
     Fax: 575-525-4412, Attention: Frances Martinez.
     Mail or personal delivery: Frances Martinez, Taylor Land 
Sale Project Lead, BLM Las Cruces District Office, 1800 Marquess 
Street, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005.
    Comments expressed verbally will not be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frances Martinez, Realty Specialist, 
at the address above, by telephone 575-525-4385, or by email at 
[email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the 
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-
800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business 
hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a 
message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply 
during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM will consider the public land 
described below for direct sale in accordance with Section 203 of FLPMA 
(43 U.S.C. 1713).

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 13 S., R. 11 E.,
    Sec. 28, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 10 acres in Otero County, New 
Mexico.

    The BLM will consider selling the 10-acre parcel through a direct 
sale of public lands to resolve an inadvertent occupancy trespass. 43 
CFR 2711.3-3(a)(5). The parcel proposed for sale is the smallest size 
possible to resolve the trespass. The BLM identified the parcel as 
suitable for disposal in the White Sands Resource Management Plan 
(RMP), dated October 1986, and the September 1986 Record of Decision. 
The sale meets the criteria for disposal in Section 203(a)(1), (d) and 
(f)) of FLPMA and regulations in 43 CFR 2710.0-3(a)(3) and 43 CFR 
2711.3-3(a)(5). A residential house, domestic well, septic system, 
access road, and utilities constitute the inadvertent occupancy to be 
resolved by the proposed sale. The patent will contain a reservation to 
the United States of all minerals in accordance with regulation 43 CFR 
2711.5.
    The BLM must receive the purchase price paid by certified check, 
postal money order, bank draft or cashier's check payable to the BLM 
within 90 days of the sale. Failure to submit the proceeds for the land 
will constitute a waiver of this preference consideration. No 
representation, warranty or covenant of any kind, express or implied, 
will be given or made by the United States, its officers or employees, 
as to access to or from the above described parcel of land, the title 
to the land, whether or to what extent the land may be developed, its 
physical condition or its past, present or potential uses, and the 
conveyance of any such parcel will not be on a contingency basis. The 
purchaser must be responsible for and aware of all applicable Federal, 
State, and local government policies and regulations that would affect 
the subject land. It is also the purchaser's responsibility to be aware 
of existing or prospective uses of nearby properties. Any land lacking 
access from a public road or highway will be conveyed as such, and 
future access acquisition will be the responsibility of the purchaser. 
To the extent required by law, the sale will be subject to the 
requirements of Section 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C 9620(h)).

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    As proposed, the sale will be made, and the land will be conveyed, 
reserving to the United States:
    1. A right-of-way thereon for ditches and canals reserved by the 
United States pursuant to the Act of August 30, 1890 (43 U.S.C. 945);
    2. All the mineral deposits in the lands so patented, and the right 
of the United States or persons authorized by the United States to 
prospect for, mine and remove such deposits from the same under 
applicable laws and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may 
prescribe.
    The BLM will convey the lands subject to:
    1. Valid existing rights;
    2. Local zoning and subdivision laws, if any;
    3. Right-of-way NMNM 13513 for Federal aid highway purposes granted 
to the New Mexico State Highway Department, its successors or assigns, 
pursuant to the Act of August 27, 1958, (23 U.S.C. 317).
    By accepting deed/patent, and to the extent allowed by law, the 
purchaser agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the United 
States from any cost, damages, claims, causes of action, penalties, 
fines, liabilities, and judgments of any kind or nature arising from 
past, present, and future acts or omissions of the purchaser, its 
employees, agents, contractor, or lessees, previous landowners or 
subsequent landowners or contractors, or lessees, or any third party, 
arising out of, or in connection with, the purchaser's use, occupancy, 
or operations on the real property which has already resulted or does 
hereafter result in: (1) Violations of Federal, State, and local laws 
and regulations which are now or may in the future become applicable to 
the real property; (2) Judgments, claims and demands of any kind 
assessed against the United States; (3) Cost, expense or damages of any 
kind incurred by the United States; (4) Releases or threatened releases 
of solid or hazardous waste(s) and/or hazardous substance(s), 
pollutant(s) or containment(s), and/or petroleum product or derivative 
of a petroleum product, as defined by Federal and State environmental 
laws, off, on, into, or under land, property, and other interests of 
the United States; (5) Other activities by which solid or hazardous 
substances or wastes, as defined by Federal and State environmental 
laws, were generated, released, stored, used, or otherwise disposed of 
on the real property, and any cleanup, response or remedial action, or 
other actions related in any manner to said solid or hazardous 
substance(s) or waste(s); or (6) Natural resource damages as defined by 
Federal and State law.
    This covenant shall be construed as running with the real property, 
and may be enforced by the United States in a court of competent 
jurisdiction.
    All persons claiming to own unauthorized improvements on the land 
are allowed 60 days from the date of sale to remove the improvements.
    On February 26, 2014, the above described land will be segregated 
from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including 
the general mining laws, except the sale provisions of FLPMA. Until 
completion of the sale, the BLM is no longer accepting land use 
applications affecting the identified public land, except applications 
for the amendment of previously filed right-of-way applications or 
existing authorizations to increase the term of the grants in 
accordance with 43 CFR 2807.15 and 2886.15. The segregation will 
terminate upon issuance of a patent, publication in the Federal 
Register of a termination of the segregation, or February 26, 2016, 
whichever occurs first, unless extended by the BLM State Director, in 
accordance with 43 CFR 2711.1-2(d) prior to the termination date.
    The public land will not be offered for sale until April 28, 2014.
    On or before April 14, 2014, any person may submit written comments 
regarding the proposed sale directly to the BLM using one of the 
methods listed in the ADDRESSES section above.
    Comments, including names, street addresses, and other contact 
information of respondents, will be available for public review. Before 
including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal 
identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your 
entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be 
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your 
comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public 
review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. All 
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals 
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations 
or businesses, are available for public inspection in their entirety.
    Detailed information, including the appraisal, the Environmental 
Assessment and the Decision relative to this direct land sale is 
available at the BLM Las Cruces District Office, 1800 Marquess Street, 
Las Cruces, New Mexico, during regular business hours between 7:45 a.m. 
to 4:30 p.m. The BLM Las Cruces District Manager will review objections 
and may sustain, vacate, or modify this realty action. In the absence 
of any objections, this realty action will become the final 
determination of the Department of the Interior.

(Authority: 43 CFR 2711.1-2)
Michael H. Tupper,
Deputy State Director, Lands and Resources.
[FR Doc. 2014-04178 Filed 2-25-14; 8:45 am]
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