[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71667-71668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25618]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Land Acquisitions; Tejon Tribe, Mettler Site, Kern County, 
California

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs made a final agency 
determination to acquire in trust 320.04 acres, more or less, of land 
known as the Mettler Site in Kern County, California, (Site) for the 
Tejon Indian Tribe, (Tribe) for gaming and other purposes.

DATES: This final determination was made on November 17, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Paula L. Hart, Director, Office of 
Indian Gaming, Mailstop 3543, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240, 
[email protected], (202) 219-4066.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On the date listed in the DATES section of 
this notice, the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs made a final 
agency determination to acquire the Site, consisting of 320.04 acres, 
more or less, in trust for the Tribe under the authority of the Indian 
Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, 25 U.S.C. 5108.
    The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, on behalf of the Secretary 
of the Interior, will immediately acquire title to the Site in the name 
of the United States of America in trust for Tribe upon fulfillment of 
all Departmental requirements. The 320.04 acres, more or less, are 
described as follows:

Real Property in the Unincorporated Area of the County of Kern, State 
of California, Described as Follows

Parcel 1

    The northeast quarter of Section 2, Township 11 North, Range 20 
West, San Bernardino Meridian, in the unincorporated area of the County 
of Kern, State of California, according to the official plat thereof.
    Also known as: Lot No. 1 and Lot No. 2, Section 2 as shown on the 
approved February 3, 1863 General Land Office official Plat of Township 
11 North, Range 20 West, San Bernardino Meridian, in the unincorporated 
area of the County of Kern, State of California, according to the 
official plat thereof.

Parcel 2

    The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 2, 
Township 11 North, Range 20 West, San Bernardino Meridian, in the 
unincorporated area of the County of Kern, State of California, 
according to the official plat thereof.

Parcel 3

    The west half of the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of 
the southeast quarter of section 2, township 11 north, range 20 West, 
San Bernardino Meridian, in the unincorporated area of the County of 
Kern, State of California, according to the official plat thereof.
    Excepting therefrom all oil, gas, minerals and other hydrocarbon 
substances within or underlying said land, or that may be produced and 
saved therefrom, providing however, grantor, his successors and assigns 
shall not conduct drilling or other operations upon the surface of said 
land, but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent the 
grantor, his successors and assigns, from extracting or capturing said 
minerals by drilling on adjacent or neighboring lands and/or from 
conducting subsurface drilling operations under said land at a depth of 
100 feet below the surface of said land, so as not to disturb the 
surface of said land or any improvements thereon, as reserved by 
Chanslor-Western Oil and Development Company, a Delaware corporation, 
successor in interest to Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil Company, a 
California corporation, in Deed recorded November 8, 1954, in Book 
2317, Page 102, of Official Records.

Parcel 4

    All that portion of section 11, township 11 north, range 20 west, 
San Bernardino Meridian, in the unincorporated area of the County of 
Kern, State of California, according to the official plat thereof 
described as follows:
    Beginning at the northeast corner of said section 11, thence South 
78[deg]07'14'' West 184.02 feet to the true point of beginning; thence 
South 89[deg]48'55'' West 40.00 feet; thence North 0[deg]11'05'' West 
40.00 feet; thence North 89[deg]48'55'' East 40.00 feet; thence South 
0[deg]11'05'' East 40.00 feet to the true point of beginning.
    Excepting therefrom all oil, gas, minerals and other hydrocarbon 
substances within or underlying said land as reserved by Kern County 
Land Company, in Deed dated October 3,

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1945, recorded in Book 1283, Page 212, of Official Records.
    Authority: This notice is published in the exercise of authority 
delegated by the Secretary of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary--
Indian Affairs by 209 Departmental Manual 8.1, and is published to 
comply with the requirements of 25 CFR 151.12 (c)(2)(ii) that notice of 
the decision to acquire land in trust be promptly provided in the 
Federal Register.

Bryan Newland,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2022-25618 Filed 11-22-22; 8:45 am]
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