66780 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 247 / Tuesday, December 26, 1995 / Notices

Signed at Washington, D.C. on December

18, 1995.

Christopher E. Goldthwait,

General Sales Manager, Foreign Agricultural

Service and Vice President, Commodity Credit

Corporation.

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Forest Service

Western Washington Cascades

Provincial Interagency Executive

Committee (PIEC) Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Western Cascades PIEC

Advisory Committee will meet on

January 23, 1996 at the Mount BakerSnoqualmie National Forest

Headquarters, 21905 64th Avenue West,

in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. The

meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and

continue until about 4:00 p.m. Agenda

items to be covered include: (1)

Discussion with U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service about the process and standards

for developing Habitat Conservation

Plans; (2) review and discussion of the

Snoqualmie Pass Adaptive Management

Area Draft Environmental Impact

Statement with members of the AMA

team; (3) overview of the Wild Salmonid

Policy recently released by the

Washington Department of Fish and

Wildlife; (4) update on issues related to

Section 2001 of Public Law 103–327

(Rescission Bill); (5) report by the River

Basin Study Group; (6) Access and

Travel Management subcommittee

report; (7) other topics as appropriate;

and (8) open public forum. All Western

Washington Cascades Province

Advisory Committee meetings are open

to the public. Interested citizens are

encouraged to attend.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct questions regarding this meeting

to Chris Hansen-Murray, Province

Liaison, USDA, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie

National Forest, 21905 64th Avenue

West, Mountlake Terrace, Washington

98043, 206–744–3276.

Dated: December 18, 1995.

Daniel T. Harkenrider,

Acting Forest Supervisor.

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Title to Forest Lieu Selection Lands

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

Agency’s Nationally Significant lands

List which identifies lands to be

retained by the United States as part of

the national Forest System; and the

Final List Of Lands Quitclaimed By The

United States in compliance with steps

three and four of a 5-step procedure

imposed by the Act of July 2, 1993.

Following publication of this notice the

Agency will file in the appropriate

county office a disclaimer of interest for

the parcels on the Final List Of Lands

Quitclaimed By The United States.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This notice is effective

December 26, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

J. Kenneth Myers, Lands Staff, Forest

Service, USDA, P.O. Box 96090,

Washington, D.C. 20090–6090, (202)

205–1248.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Certain provisions of the Act of June

4, 1897 (16 U.S.C. 473–475; the Organic

Administration Act), which provided

for the management of the forest

reserves of the United States, included

a provision known as ‘‘forest lieu

selection.’’ Under that provision,

persons who had patented public land,

or a claimant to such land, which fell

within a proclaimed forest reserve

boundary in the western United States,

were authorized to convey or relinquish

their land or claim to such land (‘‘base

land’’) to the United States and to select

an equal acreage of vacant public land

open to settlement (‘‘in-lieu land’’). The

forest reserves were renamed as national

forests in 1905.

In 1905, Congress repealed the forest

lieu selection authorization, but

protected previously made contracts

and claims. This protection preserved

the rights of those persons who had

relinquished their inholdings by

providing a deed to the United States,

but who had not yet realized or

exercised their selection rights under

the forest lieu selection provision of the

Organic Administration Act. In

legislation enacted in 1922 and 1930,

Congress provided further opportunity

to resolve remaining claims by

authorizing reconveyance of the base

lands back to the former owners or their

heirs or assigns. Consequently, most of

the claims for in-lieu land were

resolved.

However, Congress became concerned

about allegations of abuse of the

provisions of the 1930 Act, which by the

1950’s was leading to reconveyance of

valuable national forest and national

park lands. In 1960, legislation was

enacted to provide for compensation to

people who had not received

appropriate relief under the prior acts.

Section 4 of the 1960 Act repealed the

1930 Act and sought to close all

unresolved claims under the 1897 Act.

The legislation provided that any base

lands for which payment was made, or

any base lands for which payment might

have been made but for which no

demand was made, would become a

part of appropriate national forest,

national park, or other Federal area.

However, no payments were made

under the 1960 Act, continuing the

unresolved title status of some of the

base lands.

Thus, most of these base lands with

questionable title have continued to be

considered part of the national forests,

although some have been continuously

occupied by private parties since before

1960. Other base lands have been the

subject of court decisions, raising

further questions about the United

States’ claim of title.

In the mid-1980’s, the Forest Service,

pursuant to a request from Congress,

compiled a list of grantors and base

lands relinquished to the United States

under the 1897 Act provision for which

selection or other rights were not

realized or exercised. This list was

submitted to the 98th Congress and was

used by it and subsequent Congresses

for deliberations on legislation

eventually enacted as the Act of July 2,

1993.

The 1993 Act was enacted to finally

resolve the title status of the remaining

base lands, using a 5-step procedure to

either retain or quitclaim all right, title,

and interest in and to the base lands.

The first step in the 5-step procedure,

which required the Secretary of

Agriculture, acting through the Forest

Service, to compile and publish an

initial list of base lands in the Federal

Register, was completed by the Agency

on December 30, 1993 (58 FR 69321).

Copies of relevant portions of the

December 30, 1993, Federal Register

were distributed to interested parties

and appropriate federal, state, and

county offices. The Secretary of the

Interior, acting through the Bureau of

Land Management, also published an

initial list of base lands located on

public lands administered by that

Agency on December 30, 1993.

Step two, which provided a 180-day

comment period ending July 2, 1994,

allowed persons to submit information

on parcels not included in the Initial

List but believed to meet the conditions

set forth in the Act for review and

possible addition to the Initial List.

Numerous comments were submitted by

individuals or their representatives

informing the Agency of their claim or

interest in parcels already included on

the Initial List and requesting the
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Agency to provide them with a copy of

future notices concerning the Act. Other

comments identified specific lands and

requested that they be added to the

Initial List. The Agency determined that

five such parcels met the conditions of

the Act and were thereby added to the

Initial List. The parcels added to the

Initial list during the review period are

Arizona 30 and 53, Idaho 5, New

Mexico 23, and Oregon 2a. Specific

details on Arizona 30 and New Mexico

23 are identified in this notice in

TABLE 1, Nationally Significant Lands

List, while the details on Arizona 53,

Idaho 5, and Oregon 2a are identified in

this notice in TABLE 2, Final List of

Lands Quitclaimed By the United

States.

During the public review and

comment period the Agency identified

numerous errors in the Initial List.

These errors, which consisted primarily

of typographical errors in legal

descriptions and the placement of

parcels in the incorrect meridian or

county, have been corrected and are

displayed as corrected in this notice.

The information under the heading

‘‘DEED BOOK’’ and ‘‘VOL PAGE’’ was

included in the Initial List to afford

interested parties the opportunity to

research county records on Parcel

information. Since this information is

no longer needed it is not included in

this notice.

The Agency also identified several

parcels or portions of parcels on the

Initial List which did not meet the

conditions of the Act and therefore do

not appear on either the National

Significant Lands List or the Final List

of Lands Quitclaimed By the United

States. Eliminated from the Initial List

in their entirety are: California Parcel

96, which is a duplicate of California

Parcel 95: Utah Parcel 16, which was

never relinquished to the United States;

Utah Parcel 17, which is a perfected lieu

selection; and Wyoming Parcel 22, the

status of which Congress previously

addressed by Private Law 89–281 and

the United States quitclaimed its

interest by deed dated December 12,

1966. Eliminated in part from the Initial

List are: a portion of Arizona Parcel 12

in section 29 due to a typographical

error; the SWSW of section 8 of South

Dakota Parcel 51 which was never

relinquished to the United States , and

the SWSW of section 8 of South Dakota

Parcel 56, which is within the

boundaries of the Mount Rushmore

National Memorial and under the

jurisdiction of the Department of the

Interior.

Steps 3 and 4 require the compilation,

publication, and distribution of a list of

nationally significant lands to be

retained by the United States and a final

list of lands to be disclaimed by the

United States. This notice, which

contains Table 1, Nationally Significant

Lands List, and Table 2, Final List of

Lands Quitclaimed By The United

States, completes the Federal Register

publication requirements of the Act.

Preparation of these tables has been

coordinated with the Bureau of Land

Management.

The tables present the information

grouped by State, by meridian, and by

county. The first column identifies the

parcel of base land by an agency

identifier (PARCEL ID NO.). The second

column lists the names of the individual

or entity that relinquished base lands to

the United States under the 1897 Act

(GRANTOR NAME). Columns 3 through

7 show the legal description of the base

lands by Township (T), Range (R),

section (sec.), and the legal subdivisions

of the section. The standard procedure

for identifying legal subdivisions has

been modified for brevity. For example,

the south one-half of the north one-half

of a section is SN, the south one-half of

the northeast one-quarter of the

southwest one-quarter of a section is

SNESW, the east one-half of the

southeast one-quarter is ESE, and so

fourth. Column 8 shows the acres,

rounded to the nearest acre, associated

with the legal description of the parcel.

Nationally Significant Lands List Title

to Which is Confirmed in the United

States

(Step 3)

TABLE 1, at the end of this notice,

presents the list of lands removed from

the Initial List and determined by the

Agency to be nationally significant

lands. This is the final identification of

lands to be retained by the United

States. In accordance with the

provisions of SEC. 2(c)(2) of the Act, all

right, title, and interest, in and to the

lands identified in TABLE 1, Nationally

Significant Lands List, and not

previously vested in the United States,

are vested and confirmed in the United

States.

Anyone claiming that any lands

identified in TABLE 1, Nationally

Significant Lands List is a ‘‘taking’’ of

property has one year from the date of

this publication to file a petition in the

United States Court of Federal Claims

for monetary compensation under the

Act.

Identification of nationally significant

lands does not of itself entitle any party

to compensation. The burden is on the

claimant to prove a compensable taking

claim.

Final List of Lands Quitclaimed by the

United States

(Step 4)

TABLE 2, at the end of this notice,

presents the Final List of Lands

Quitclaimed By the United States in

accordance with the provisions of SEC.

2(a) of the Act. Pursuant to the Act the

United States quitclaims to the listed

owner or entryman, his heirs, devisees,

successors, and assigns, all right, title,

and interest of the United States in and

to the land described in TABLE 2, Final

List of Lands Quitclaimed By the United

States, effective on the date of this

notice.

Issuance of Disclaimer of Interest

(Step 5)

The Agency will, within 6 months of

the date of this notice, issue documents

of disclaimer confirming the

quitclaiming of all right, title, and

interest of the United States in and to

the base lands included in TABLE 2,

Final List of Lands Quitclaimed By the

United States, subject to valid existing

rights, to the listed grantors, their heirs,

devises, successors, and assigns. The

documents of disclaimer will be

recorded in appropriate county, Agency,

and Bureau of Land Management

records. These documents may further

describe the lands quitclaimed where

the legal descriptions listed in Table 2

are identified as a part or portion of an

aliquot part.

The acceptance of benefits under the

Act of July 2, 1993, (Pub. L. 103–48), or

failure to seek benefits provided under

this Act within the time allotted with

respect to any base lands or other lands,

will be considered a waiver of any claim

against the United States with respect to

those lands or to any revenues

therefrom.

Dated: December 19, 1995.

David G. Unger,

Associate Chief.

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