[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54633-54634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22219]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNM004000 L54200000.FR0000 LVDIG18ZGKQ0 18X]


Notice of Application for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest: 
Tarrant County, Texas

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of application.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received an application 
for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest (Disclaimer of Interest) from 
Frances Corn Chandler, Howard Fielding Chandler, Alexander Marr 
Chandler, Lewis Matthews Chandler, Jere Jean Yeager, and Kathryn Louise 
Kronawitter, heirs of Virginia C. Yeager and Opal Keating, pursuant to 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, and BLM 
regulations, for certain mineral estate in Tarrant County, Texas. This 
notice is intended to inform the public of the pending application, 
give notice of the BLM's intention to grant the Disclaimer of Interest 
and provide a public comment period for the Disclaimer of Interest.

DATES: Comments on this action should be received by January 8, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Written comments must be sent to the Deputy State Director, 
Lands and Resources, BLM, New Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, 
Santa Fe, NM 87508. Comments, including names and street addresses of 
commenters, will be available for public review at the BLM New Mexico 
State Office, during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays. Additional information pertaining to this 
application can be reviewed in case file TXNM138111 in the BLM Oklahoma 
Field Office, 201 Stephenson Parkway, Room 1200, Norman, OK 73072-2037.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Ledbetter, Realty Specialist, BLM 
Oklahoma Field Office; telephone: 405-579-7172; email: 
[email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the 
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 
to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The 
Service 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 purpose of this Disclaimer of Interest 
is to remove a cloud on the title of a mineral interest of a parcel of 
land situated in Tarrant County, Texas.
    The BLM received an application for a Disclaimer of Interest from 
the heirs of Virginia C. Yeager and Opal Keating for the mineral estate 
of land lying near the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers' (Corps) Benbrook 
Lake in Tarrant County, Texas. This is a subsequent application from 
these applicants and pertains to a second mineral interest lying 
adjacent to the mineral estate that was the subject of the applicants' 
initial Disclaimer of Interest. The mineral estate subject to the 
initial application is identified as Tract C-214 and a portion of Tract 
C-215 located within the John T. Gilliland Survey (A-610) and the 
William Hunter Survey (A-734). The resulting Disclaimer of Interest 
disclaimed any interest the United States may have had in Tract C-214 
and a portion of Tract C-215. This Disclaimer of Interest, issued in 
2016, was executed by the BLM based upon the opinions of the U.S. 
Attorney General, Corps, and the BLM acknowledging the minerals 
underlying the Hunter and Gilliland surveys were severed from the 
surface estate in 1922 via the mineral deed from J.W. Corn to Virginia 
C. Yeager and Opal Keating as recorded in Volume 745, Page 578, Tarrant 
County, Texas; and the mineral interest under the Hunter and Gilliland 
surveys was never acquired by the Corps.
    The pending second application from the heirs of Yeager and Keating 
addresses the mineral estate under the Hunter and Gilliland surveys 
within Corps Tract B-115. Tract B-115 is located within seven separate 
surveys and has multiple, complex chains of title for the various 
parcels making up Tract B-115. The applicants' second application seeks 
a Disclaimer of Interest for the western portions of Tract B-115 that 
are within the Gilliland and Hunter surveys only. The applicants are

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making no claim to the minerals in the eastern portion of Tract B-115 
that are within the other five surveys. A review of the land status 
records and title records provided by the applicants indicate that the 
Corps purchased Tract B-115 in May 1950. As was the case in the initial 
Disclaimer of Interest, prior to the Corps' acquisition of Tract B-115, 
the mineral estate was transferred from J.W. Corn to his daughters, and 
the Corps did not acquire the mineral estate under Tract B-115. In 
order to remove the cloud on the title, the BLM intends to disclaim the 
land described as:
    All that portion of Tract B-115, located within the John T. 
Gilliland Survey, A-610, and the William Hunter Survey, A-734 (minerals 
only).
    Tract B-115, situated in the County of Tarrant, State of Texas, the 
Tract described is shown upon a portion the U.S. Army, Corps, Office of 
the Fort Worth District Engineer, Southwest Project Map, entitled 
``REAL ESTATE BENBROOK LAKE,'' dated November 5, 1986, supplementing 
this Disclaimer of Interest. The area contains 73.12 acres as 
identified by the Corps documents listed above.
    This Disclaimer of Interest does not address any surface interest 
that may still be vested with the United States of America.
    The public is hereby notified that comments may be submitted to the 
Deputy State Director, Lands and Resources, at the address shown 
earlier within the comment period identified in this notice. Any 
adverse comments will be evaluated by the State Director who may modify 
or vacate this action and issue a final determination.
    In the absence of any valid objection, this notice will become the 
final determination of the Department of the Interior and a Disclaimer 
of Interest may be issued 90 days from publication of this notice.
    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.

(Authority: 43 CFR 1864.2(a))

Melanie G. Barnes,
Deputy State Director, Land and Resources.
[FR Doc. 2019-22219 Filed 10-9-19; 8:45 am]
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