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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[NM–070–1430–EU; NMNM–116843] 

Notice of Realty Action: NonCompetitive (Direct) Sale of Public 

Lands in San Juan County, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: The following described 

public lands, comprising approximately 

200 acres in San Juan County, New 

Mexico, have been examined and found 

suitable for sale to San Juan County, at 

not less than the fair market value of 

$400,000, for use as an industrial park. 

The sale will be conducted under the 

authority of Section 203(f)(2) of the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended, 43 U.S.C. 1701 

et seq. (FLPMA), and CFR 2711.3–3(a), 

and will take place according to the 

procedures governing direct sales of 

public land. 

DATES: On or before May 21, 2007, 

interested parties may submit comments 

concerning the proposed sale to Bureau 

of Land Management (BLM), 

Farmington Field Office at the address 

stated below. 

ADDRESSES: Information related to this 

action, including the environmental 

assessment, is available for review at the 

BLM, Farmington Field Office, 1235 La 

Plata Highway, Suite A, Farmington, 

New Mexico 87401, from 7:45 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Albert Gonzales, Realty Specialist at 

(505) 599–6334. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The land 

contains 200 acres, more or less, located 

13 miles north of Farmington, New 

Mexico. This parcel of land, situated in 

San Juan County, is being offered on a 

non-competitive (direct) sale basis to 

San Juan County, in accordance with 

section 203(f)(2) of 6 (FLPMA) and 43 

CFR 2711.3–3(a), for use as an industrial 

park. The BLM Farmington District 

Manager has determined that a noncompetitive (direct) sale will be in the 

best interest of the public to facilitate 

growth and business opportunities for 

San Juan County. FLPMA authorizes the 

use of direct sales of the public lands in 

circumstances where that tract has been 

identified for transfer to a State or local 

government as an integral part of the 

project and speculative bidding would 

jeopardize a timely completion and the 

economic viability of the project. The 

BLM proposes to convey the identified 

tract to a local government as an integral 

part of such a project. The parcel is 

being offered for sale at no less than the 

appraised fair market value (FMV) of 

$400,000, as determined by the 

authorized officer after appraisal. An 

appraisal report has been prepared by a 

State certified appraiser for the purposes 

of establishing FMV. The land proposed 

for sale is described as: 

New Mexico Principal Meridian 

T. 32 N., R. 13 W., 

Sec. 23: S1⁄2NE1⁄4SE1⁄4, NE1⁄4NW1⁄4SE1⁄4, 

S1⁄2NW1⁄4SE1⁄4, and S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 26: NE1⁄4NE1⁄4 and NE1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4; 

The area described contains 

approximately 200 acres in San Juan 

County. 

This land is not required for any 

Federal purposes. The proposed action 

is in compliance with the BLM 

Farmington Resource Management Plan 

and approved September 2003. In the 

event of a sale, conveyance will include 

the surface interests only. The patent, 

when issued, will contain the following 

reservations, covenants, terms, and 

conditions: 

1. The parcel will be conveyed with 

a reservation of a right-of-way to the 

United States for ditches and canals 

constructed by the authority of the 

United States under the Act of August 

30, 1890 (43 U.S.C. 945). 

2. The parcel will be conveyed subject 

to valid existing rights, including, but 

not limited to rights-of-ways. The parcel 

may be subject to applications for rightsof-way received prior to the publication 

of this Notice if processing the 

application would not adversely affect 

the marketability or appraised value of 

the parcel proposed for sale. All 

minerals are reserved to the United 

States, together with the right to 

prospect for, mine and remove the 

minerals owned by the United States 

under applicable laws and any 

regulations that the Secretary of Interior 

may prescribe, including all necessary 

access and exit rights. 

3. The patentee, by accepting a patent, 

covenants and agrees to indemnify, 

defend, and hold the United States 

harmless from any costs, damages, 

claims, causes of action, penalties, fines, 

liabilities, and judgments of any kind or 

nature arising from the past, present, 

and future acts or omissions of the 

patentees or their employees, agents, 

contractors, or lessees, or any thirdparty, arising out of or in connection 

with the patentees use, occupancy, or 

operations on the patented real 

property. This indemnification and hold 

harmless agreement includes, but is not 

limited to, acts and omissions of the 

patentees and their employees, agents, 

contractors, or lessees, or any third 

party, arising out of or in connection 

with the use and/or occupancy of the 

patented real property that has already 

resulted or does hereafter result in: (1) 

Violations of Federal, State, and local 

laws and regulations that are now or 

may in the future become, applicable to 

the real property; (2) Judgments, claims, 

or demands of any kind assessed against 

the United States; (3) Costs, expenses, or 

damages of any kind incurred by the 

United States; (4) Releases or threatened 

releases of solid or hazardous waste(s) 

and/or hazardous substances(s), as 

defined by Federal or State 

environmental laws, off, on, into or 

under land, property and other interests 

of the United States; (5) Activities by 

which solids or hazardous substances or 

wastes, as defined by Federal and State 

environmental laws are generated, 

released, stored, used or otherwise 

disposed of on the patented real 

property, and any cleanup response, 

remedial action or other actions related 

in any manner to said solid or 

hazardous substances or wastes; or (6) 

Natural resource damages as defined by 

Federal and State law. Patentee shall 

stipulate that it will be solely 

responsible for compliance with all 

applicable Federal, State, and local 

environmental and regulatory 

provisions, throughout the life of the 

facility, including any closure and/or 

post-closure requirements that may be 

imposed with respect to any physical 

plant and/or facility upon the real 

property under any Federal, State or 

local environmental laws or regulatory 

provisions. This covenant shall be 

construed as running with the above 

described parcel of land patented or 

otherwise conveyed by the United 

States, and may be enforced by the 

United States in a court of competent 

jurisdiction. 

No warranty of any kind express or 

implied is given or will be given by the 

United States as to the title, physical 

condition or potential uses of the land 

proposed for sale. However, to the 

extent required by law, such land is 

subject to the requirements of section 

120(h) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response Compensation 

and Liability Act (CERCLA), as 

amended (42 U.S. C. 9620(h)). 

The publication of this Notice in the 

Federal Register shall segregate the 

public lands covered by this Notice to 

the extent that they will not be subject 

to appropriation under the public land 

laws, including the mining laws. Any 

subsequent application, shall not be 

accepted, shall not be considered as 

filed and shall be returned to the 

applicant, if the Notice segregates the 


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lands from the use applied for in the 

application. The segregative effect of 

this Notice will terminate upon issuance 

of a patent or other document of 

conveyance for such lands, upon 

publication in the Federal Register of a 

termination of the segregation, or April 

6, 2009, whichever occurs first, unless 

extended by the BLM State Director in 

accordance with 43 CFR 2611.1–2(d), 

prior to the termination date. 

Interested parties may submit 

comments to the District Manager, BLM 

Farmington Field Office, 1235 La Plata 

Highway, Suite A, Farmington, New 

Mexico 87401 until 45 days after the 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. Any adverse 

comments will be reviewed by the State 

Director who may sustain, vacate, or 

modify this realty action. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

e-mail 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. In the absence of any adverse 

comments, this realty action will 

become the final determination of the 

Department of the Interior. The BLM 

may accept or reject any or all offers, or 

withdraw any land or interest in the 

land from sale, if, in the opinion of the 

authorized officer, consummation of the 

sale would not be fully consistent with 

FLPMA, or other applicable laws. 

The lands will not be offered for sale 

until at least 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Authority: 43 CFR 2711.1–2(c). 

Dated: February 22, 2007. 

Joel Farrell, 

Assistant Field Manager, Farmington, New 

Mexico. 

[FR Doc. E7–6411 Filed 4–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

Colorado: Filing of Plats of Survey 

March 29, 2007. 

Summary: The plats of survey of the 

following described land will be 

officially filed in the Colorado State 

Office, Bureau of Land Management, 

Lakewood, Colorado, effective 10 a.m., 

March 29, 2007. All inquiries should be 

sent to the Colorado State Office (CO–

956), Bureau of Land Management, 2850 

Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 

80215–7093. 

The plat and field notes, of the 

dependent resurvey of the ColoradoNew Mexico State Line (S. bdy.), the 

east and west boundaries, and the 

subdivisional lines of Township 32 

North, Range 18 West, of the New 

Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, 

were accepted on November 15, 2006. 

The plat which includes the field 

notes, and is the entire record of this 

Corrective Dependent Resurvey in 

Township 35 North, Range 16 West, 

New Mexico Principal Meridian, 

Colorado, was accepted on December 

21, 2006. This survey was made as a 

result of an field error made during the 

dependent resurvey in 1985–86. 

The plat, which includes the field 

notes, and is the entire record of this 

resurvey, in Section 33, Township 36 

North, Range 11 West, New Mexico 

Principal Meridian, Colorado, was 

accepted on January 10, 2007. 

The supplemental plat of Section 18, 

in Township 1 North, Range 78 West, 

Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was 

accepted on January 23, 2007. 

The plats (2) and field notes, of the 

dependent resurvey and surveys in 

Township 50 North, Range 9 West, New 

Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, 

were accepted on January 24, 2007. 

The plat and field notes of the 

dependent resurvey and surveys in 

Township 37 North, Range 19 West, 

New Mexico Principal Meridian, 

Colorado were accepted on January 25, 

2007. 

The plat, which includes the field 

notes, and is the entire record of this 

survey, in Section 8, Township 32 

North, Range 3 West, New Mexico 

Principal Meridian, Colorado was 

accepted on January 30, 2007. 

The supplemental plat of Township 

50 North, Range 18 West, New Mexico 

Principal Meridian, Colorado, was 

accepted on February 1, 2007. This 

supplemental plat, shows the result of 

the cancellation of certain mineral 

surveys in Sections 3, 4, 9, and 14. 

The plat, which includes the field 

notes, and is the entire record of the 

location and remonumentation of 

certain original corners in, Township 7 

North, Range 91 West, Sixth Principal 

Meridian, Colorado, was accepted on 

February 5, 2007. 

The plats (2) which include the field 

notes, and are the entire record of the 

location and remonumentation of 

certain original corners in, Townships 8 

North, Ranges 100 and 101 West, Sixth 

Principal Meridian, Colorado, were 

accepted on February 5, 2007. 

The plats (4) and field notes, of the 

dependent resurveys and surveys, in 

Townships 5 and 6 North, Range 92 

West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Colorado, were accepted on February 

13, 2007. 

The plat and field notes, of the 

dependent resurveys and surveys, of 

Sections 1 and 2, in Township 36 North, 

Range 6 West, New Mexico Principal 

Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on 

March 1, 2007. 

The supplemental plat of Section 21, 

Township 41 North, Range 2 West, New 

Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, 

was accepted on March 7, 2007. This 

supplemental plat, shows the 

redesignation of lot 4 to regular aliquot 

parts and complies with the description 

shown in Patent No. 1133510. 

The plats (2) and field notes, of the 

metes and bounds surveys of portions of 

the east boundary of the Great Sand 

Dunes National Preserve, in Township 

25 South, Range 72 West, (Medano Pass) 

and Township 24 South, Range 73 West 

(Music Pass) of the Sixth Principal 

Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on 

March 15, 2007. 

The plat and field notes, of the 

dependent resurvey and section 

subdivision of Sections 5, 8 and 20, 

Township 45 North, Range 5 East, New 

Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, 

was accepted on March 21, 2007. 

Randall M. Zanon, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Colorado. 

[FR Doc. E7–6417 Filed 4–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Draft General Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement, John 

Day Fossil Beds National Monument, 

Grant and Wheeler Counties, OR; 

Notice of Termination of the 

Environmental Impact Statement 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service is 

terminating preparation of an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the General Management Plan, John 

Day Fossil Beds, Oregon. A Notice of 

Intent to prepare an EIS for the John Day 

Fossil Beds National Monument General 

Management Plan was published in the 

Federal Register on September 24, 2004 

(Vol. 69, No. 185, Pages 57362–63). 

Based in part on the minimal nature of 

public response to the Notice of Intent, 

the National Park Service has since 

determined that an Environmental 

Assessment rather than an EIS is the 

appropriate environmental 


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