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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1189-1190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00003]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[PO #4820000251; NM-052394; NM-052395]

Public Land Order No. 7955; Partial Revocation of Withdrawals 
Created by Secretary Orders Dated December 10 and 22, 1928, for the 
Avalon Reservoir Carlsbad Project; New Mexico

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This Public Land Order (Order) partially revokes two 
withdrawals created by Secretary's orders dated December 10 and 22, 
1928, issued pursuant to the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, section 
3, to support the Bureau of Reclamation's (BOR) Avalon Reservoir 
Carlsbad Project. The BOR has determined that 335.25 acres of withdrawn 
lands are no longer needed for reclamation purposes and has

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requested that the withdrawals be partially revoked. This Order opens 
the lands to appropriation under the public land laws, subject to valid 
existing rights.

DATES: This Order takes effect on January 7, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tessa Telles, BLM, Carlsbad Field 
Office, at (575) 234-5980 or by email [email protected]. Individuals in 
the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a 
speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or Tele Braille) to access 
telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United 
States should use the relay services offered within their country to 
make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BOR has requested a partial withdrawal 
revocation of 335.25 acres of land originally withdrawn in support of 
the Avalon Reservoir Carlsbad Project created by two Secretary's orders 
dated December 10 and 22, 1928, issued pursuant to the Reclamation Act 
of June 17, 1902, section 3. The BOR has determined that the lands are 
no longer needed for reclamation purposes. The revocation of the 
withdrawal will open the lands to appropriation and allow the lands to 
be conveyed out of Federal ownership in a proposed land sale. Any lands 
not conveyed will be restored to the administration of the Bureau of 
Land Management.

Order

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 
43 U.S.C. 1714, it is ordered as follows:
    1. The withdrawals created by Secretary Orders dated December 10 
and 22, 1928, which withdrew public lands for use by the Bureau of 
Reclamation for the Avalon Reservoir Carlsbad Project, are hereby 
partially revoked as to the following described lands:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 21 S., R. 26 E.,
    Sec. 14, lot 4;
    Sec. 23, lots 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, and 13.

    The area described contains 335.25 acres.
    2. At 8 a.m. Mountain Time (MT) on January 7, 2025, the lands 
described above will open to the operation of the public land laws, 
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 8 a.m. 
MT on January 7, 2025, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing. Applications to appropriate any of the lands referenced in 
this Order received prior to the date and time stated above shall be 
rejected. The lands will remain closed to location and entry under the 
United States mining laws until such time as the lands are conveyed out 
of Federal ownership or an opening order is issued pursuant to 43 CFR 
2091.6.

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714)

Robert T. Anderson,
Solicitor.
[FR Doc. 2025-00003 Filed 1-6-25; 8:45 am]
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