[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3917-3919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1416]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCAD08000.L14300000.ET0000; CACA 50194]
Notice of Partial Cancellation of Proposed Withdrawal; California
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Navy (Navy) has requested partial
cancellation of its application of August 13, 2008, which requested the
Secretary of the Interior to process a proposed legislative withdrawal
and reservation of public lands and public mineral estate for its use.
These lands were to be withdrawn on behalf of the proposed expansion of
the U. S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms.
The Navy has requested that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) remove
approximately 33,488 acres of public lands from its application. The
initial application was for the transfer of jurisdiction and the
withdrawal of approximately 365,906 acres of public land and
approximately 507 acres of Federal subsurface mineral estate from all
forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including surface
entry, mining, mineral leasing, and the Materials Act of 1947. This
notice terminates the temporary two-year segregation from settlement,
sale, location, or entry under the public land laws, including the
mining laws, and the operation of the mineral leasing laws and the
Materials Act of 1947 of the public lands and mineral estate described
below. In addition, the initial application provisionally identified
the surface estate of 507 acres of federally-owned mineral estate and
the surface and mineral estates of approximately 72,186 acres of non-
federally owned property in the proposed withdrawal area. If these
acres were ever acquired by or returned to the United States by any
means, they were also to be included in the proposed withdrawal and
subject to the temporary segregation authorized by the initial notice.
The Navy has requested that the BLM remove surface and mineral estates
of approximately 28,871 acres of the non-federally owned property.
DATES: Effective Date: January 25, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roxie Trost, Field Manager, BLM
Barstow Field Office, 2601 Barstow Road, Barstow, California 92311,
(760) 252-6000; or Joseph Ross, Range Expansion Program Manager, USMC
MAGTFTC, MCAGCC, Bldg. 1554, Box
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788106, Twentynine Palms, California 92278-8106, (760) 830-7683.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice of Proposed Legislative Withdrawal
and Opportunity for Public Meeting was published in the Federal
Register on September 15, 2008 (73 FR 53269) in response to the initial
application from the Navy. Based on a review of the lands proposed for
withdrawal, the Navy has requested that the following described lands
and interest in lands be removed from its application:
1. Federally-owned surface and mineral estate:
San Bernardino Meridian
Western Expansion Area.
T. 4 N., R. 2 E.,
Sec. 2, lots 3 to 90, inclusive.
T. 6 N., R. 2 E.,
Sec. 1, SE\1/4\;
Sec. 12, E\1/2\.
T. 4 N., R. 3 E.,
Sec. 11;
Sec. 13, S\1/2\;
Sec. 14, SE\1/4\;
Sec. 15, N\1/2\.
T. 3 N., R. 4 E.,
Sec. 1.
T. 4 N., R. 4 E.,
Secs. 34 to 35, inclusive.
T. 3 N., R. 5 E.,
Sec. 9, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\,
E\1/2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, W\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/
4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, W\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\,
E\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and E\1/2\SW\1/
4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 10, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\ NW\1/4\, and W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 12, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, E\1/2\W\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, E\1/
2\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, E\1/2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/
4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, W\1/2\E\1/2\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\,
SW\1/4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\, and W\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
Southern Expansion Area.
T. 2 N., R. 9 E.,
Sec. 34, N\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/
2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\N\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NE\1/
4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, W\1/2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/
4\SW\1/4\, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\NE\1/
4\SE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
Eastern Expansion Area.
T. 5 N., R. 11 E.,
Secs. 1 and 2, secs. 11 to 14, inclusive, and secs. 23 to 26,
inclusive.
T. 6 N., R. 11 E.,
Sec. 35, that portion lying south of the Historic Route 66
Corridor.
T. 5 N., R. 12 E.,
Sec. 2, that portion lying south of the Historic Route 66
Corridor;
Secs. 3 to 4, those portions lying south of the Historic Route
66 Corridor except for the lands conveyed to U. S. Gypsum Company by
patent number 1000677, inclusive;
Sec. 5, lots 3 and 4, lots 15 to 22, inclusive, and lots 31 to
38, inclusive;
Sec. 6, that portion lying south of the Historic Route 66
Corridor;
Sec. 7;
Sec. 8, all except for the land conveyed to U. S. Gypsum Company
by patent number 1000678;
Sec. 9;
Secs. 10 and 11, all except the lands conveyed to U. S. Gypsum
Company by patent number 1000677, inclusive;
Secs. 12 to 15, inclusive;
Sec. 17, all except the lands conveyed to U. S. Gypsum Company
by patent number 1000678;
Sec. 18.
T. 5 N., R. 13 E.,
Secs. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 18.
T. 3 N., R. 14 E.,
Sec. 23, that portion lying east of the Sheephole Valley
Wilderness Area;
Sec. 24;
Secs. 25 and 26, those portions lying east of the Sheephole
Valley Wilderness Area;
Sec. 36, that portion of NW\1/4\ lying east of the Sheephole
Valley Wilderness Area.
T. 5 N., R. 14 E.,
Secs. 1 to 4, inclusive, secs 6, 7 and 10;
Sec. 11, E\1/2\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, and S\1/
2\;
Secs. 12, 14 and 15.
T. 2 N., R. 15 E.,
Secs. 4 and 5;
Secs. 6 to 8, those portions lying northeasterly of the
Sheephole Valley Wilderness Area, inclusive.
T. 3 N., R. 15 E.,
Sec. 15, that portion lying west of the Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
Area;
Secs. 18, 19 and 20;
Sec. 22, that portion lying west of the Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
Area;
Secs. 25 to 28, inclusive, secs. 30, 31 and 32;
Sec. 34, N\1/2\;
Sec. 35, N\1/2\ and SE\1/4\.
T. 5 N., R. 15 E.,
Secs. 1 to 4, inclusive, and secs. 6 and 7;
Sec. 9, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 5 N., R. 16 E.,
Sec. 29, that portion lying westerly of the Old Woman Mountains
Wilderness Area.
Northern Expansion Area.
T. 6 N., R. 7 E.,
Sec. 12.
T. 7 N., R. 7 E.,
Sec. 24.
The areas described aggregate 33,488 acres, more or less, in San
Bernardino County.
2. Non-federally-owned surface and mineral estate:
(a). Privately-owned surface and mineral estate:
San Bernardino Meridian
Western Expansion Area.
T. 4 N., R. 3 E.,
Sec. 10, S\1/2\N\1/2\ and S\1/2\;
Sec. 11, SE\1/4\;
Sec. 12, SW\1/4\;
Sec. 13, N\1/2\.
T. 4 N., R. 4 E.,
Sec. 18, S\1/2\;
Sec. 36.
T. 3 N., R. 5 E.,
Sec. 9, W\1/2\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/
4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and W\1/2\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 12, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, W\1/2\W\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\,
NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, W\1/
2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, E\1/2\E\1/2\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, SW\1/4\SW\1/
4\SE\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\, and E\1/
2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
Southern Expansion Area.
T. 2 N., R. 9 E.,
Sec. 34, N\1/2\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/
4\, E\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\N\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/
2\S\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\NE\1/
4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, E\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, S\1/2\S\1/2\, E\1/
2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, and W\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/
4\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 35, N\1/2\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/
4\, and S\1/2\;
Sec. 36.
T. 2 N., R. 10 E.,
Sec. 36.
Eastern Expansion Area.
T. 6 N., R. 11 E.,
Sec. 36, that portion lying south of the Historic Route 66
corridor.
T. 3 N., R. 12 E.,
Sec. 36, that portion lying west of the boundary of the
Sheephole Valley Wilderness Area.
T. 5 N., R. 12 E.,
Sec. 1;
Secs. 3, 4, 10, and 11, all the lands conveyed to U.S. Gypsum
Company by patent number 1000677, containing 480 acres, inclusive;
Sec. 5, lot 1 of NE\1/4\, W\1/2\ of lot 1 of NW\1/4\, W\1/2\ of
lot 2 of NE\1/4\, W\1/2\ of lot 2 of NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
Secs. 8 and 17, all the lands conveyed to U.S. Gypsum Company by
patent number 1000678, inclusive.
T. 5 N., R. 13 E.,
Secs. 1, 5, 9, 13, 16 and 17.
T. 4 N., R. 14 E.,
Sec. 36, that portion lying east of the Sheephole Valley
Wilderness Area.
T. 5 N., R. 14 E.,
Secs. 5, 8, and 9;
Sec. 11, W\1/2\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
Secs. 13, 16, 17 and 18.
T. 3 N., R. 15 E.,
Secs. 17, 21, 29, and 33;
Sec. 34, S\1/2\.
T. 5 N., R. 15 E.,
Secs. 5 and 8;
Sec. 9, N\1/2\, SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
Secs. 17 and 18.
T. 5 N., R. 16 E.,
Sec. 29, that portion lying southwesterly of the Old Woman
Mountains Wilderness Area.
Northern Expansion Area.
T. 6 N., R. 7 E.,
Secs. 1 and 13.
The areas described aggregate 24,837 acres, more or less, in San
Bernardino County.
(b). State-of-California-owned surface and
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mineral estate:
San Bernardino Meridian
Western Expansion Area.
T. 4 N., R. 3 E.,
Sec. 14, N\1/2\;
Sec. 15, S\1/2\.
Eastern Expansion Area.
T. 3 N., R. 15 E.,
Sec. 16, that portion lying southwesterly of the Cadiz Dunes
Wilderness Area.
T. 5 N., R. 15 E.,
Sec. 16.
Northern Expansion Area.
T. 7 N., R. 7 E.,
Sec. 36.
The areas described aggregate 4,034 acres, more or less, in San
Bernardino County.
At 10 a.m. on February 24, 2010, the lands described above in ``1.
Federally-owned surface and mineral estate'' will be opened to all
forms of appropriation under the public land laws generally, subject to
valid existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law. All
valid applications received at or prior to 10 a.m. on February 24,
2010, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those
received thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
At 10 a.m. on February 24, 2010, the lands described above in ``1.
Federally-owned surface and mineral estate'' of this order will be
opened to location and entry under the United States mining laws--
subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing
withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the requirements of
applicable law. Appropriation of land described in this order under the
general mining laws prior to the date and time of restoration is
unauthorized. Any such attempted appropriation, including attempted
adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 38 (2006), shall vest no rights
against the United States. Acts required to establish a location and to
initiate a right of possession are governed by state law where not in
conflict with Federal law. The BLM will not intervene in disputes
between rival locators over possessory rights since Congress has
provided for such determinations in local courts.
At 10 a.m. on February 24, 2010, the lands described above in ``1.
Federally-owned surface and mineral estate'' of this order will be
opened to the operation of the mineral leasing laws and the Materials
Act of 1947--subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the
requirements of applicable law.
Authority: 43 CFR 2310.1-4(a) and 43 CFR 2310.2-1(c).
Thomas Pogacnik,
Deputy State Director, Natural Resources (CA-930), Bureau of Land
Management.
[FR Doc. 2010-1416 Filed 1-22-10; 8:45 am]
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