[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2640-2641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-1116]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-030-1430-00] ES-50578, Group 545, Minnesota]


Notice of Filing of Plat of an Island; Minnesota

    1. The plat of the survey of an island in Fox Lake, Township 59 
North, Range 25 West, Fourth Principal Meridian, Minnesota, accepted on 
January 6, 2000, will be officially filed in Eastern States, 
Springfield, Virginia at 7:30 a.m., on February 22, 2000. The tract 
shown below describes the island omitted from the original survey.

Fourth Principal Meridian, Minnesota

T. 59 N. R. 25 W.
    Tract No. 37

    2. Tract No. 37 is firm land rising 3-5 ft. above the ordinary high 
water mark. The soil has evolved from glacial till parent material and 
is similar to the soil found on the adjacent uplands. Numerous stones 
were located along the northerly and easterly shore of the island. Tree 
species consist of birch, cedar, fir and spruce, ranging in size from 3 
to 15 inches in diameter, with a maximum age of 80+ years. The ground 
cover consists of alder, hazel, willow and native grasses on the 
southerly and westerly shore line.
    Structures located on the island consist of an old log cabin, 14\1/
2\  x  21\1/2\ feet, longside bears S. 68 deg. W., a privy, an old well 
and a power pole with line bearing S. 19 E., to the adjacent upland.
    3. The present water level of the lake compares favorably with that 
of the original meander line; therefore, the elevation and upland 
character of the island along with the depth and width of the lake 
between the adjacent upland and the island are considered evidence that 
the island did exist in 1858, the year Minnesota was admitted to the 
Union. The original survey in 1875 did not note the presence of this 
island.
    4. Tract No. 37 is more than 50 percent upland in character within 
the interpretation of the Swamp and Overflow Act of September 28, 1850 
(9 Stat. 519) as extended to the State of Minnesota under the Act of 
March 12, 1860 (12 Stat. 3). Therefore, the island is held to be public 
land.
    5. The survey was requested by Edwin A. and Sheryl I. Olson, under 
the authority of Section 211 of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1721) and the 
Minnesota Public Lands Improvement Act of 1990, P.L. 101-442 (104 Stat. 
1020).
    6. Except for valid existing rights, this island will not be 
subject to application, petition, location or selection under any 
public law until February 22, 2000.
    7. Interested parties protesting the determination that this island 
is public land of the United States, must present valid proof showing 
that the island did not exist at the time of statehood or that it was 
attached to the mainland at the time of the original survey. Such 
protests must be submitted in writing to the Chief Cadastral Surveyor, 
Eastern States, Bureau of Land Management, 7450 Boston Boulevard, 
Springfield, Virginia 22153, prior to 7:30 a.m., February 22, 2000.

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    Copies of the plat will be made available upon request and 
prepayment of the appropriate fee.

    Dated: January 6, 2000.
Stephen G. Kopach,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor.
[FR Doc. 00-1116 Filed 1-14-00; 8:45 am]
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