54176 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 171 / Friday, September 3, 2010 / Notices 

Containing 2.35 acres. 

T. 4 S., R. 12 W., 

Secs. 20, 28, and 29. 

Containing 557.17 acres. 

Aggregating 559.52 acres. 

Notice of the decision will also be 

published four times in the Nome 

Nugget. 

DATES: Any party claiming a property 

interest in the lands affected by the 

decision may appeal the decision within 

the following time limits: 

1. Unknown parties, parties unable to 

be located after reasonable efforts have 

been expended to locate, parties who 

fail or refuse to sign their return receipt, 

and parties who receive a copy of the 

decision by regular mail which is not 

certified, return receipt requested, shall 

have until October 4, 2010 to file an 

appeal. 

2. Parties receiving service of the 

decision by certified mail shall have 30 

days from the date of receipt to file an 

appeal. 

Parties who do not file an appeal in 

accordance with the requirements of 43 

CFR part 4, subpart E, shall be deemed 

to have waived their rights. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the decision may 

be obtained from: Bureau of Land 

Management, Alaska State Office, 222 

West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

Alaska 99513–7504. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

BLM by phone at 907–271–5960, by email at ak.blm.conveyance@blm.gov, or 

by telecommunication device (TTD) 

through the Federal Information Relay 

Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339, 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week. 

Eileen Ford, 

Land Transfer Resolution Specialist, Land 

Transfer Adjudication II Branch. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22067 Filed 9–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLAK927000 L54200000 FR0000 

LVDIL09L0430; AA–086371] 

Notice of Application for a Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest for Lands 

Underlying the Kuskokwim River in 

Alaska 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The State of Alaska has filed 

an application with the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) for a Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest from the United 

States in those lands underlying the 

Kuskokwim River in Southwestern 

Alaska. The State asserts that the 

Kuskokwim River was navigable and 

unreserved at the time of Statehood; 

therefore, title to the submerged lands 

passed to the State at the time of 

Statehood (1959). Certain lands 

included in the application are within 

the exterior boundary of the Yukon 

Delta National Wildlife Refuge, created 

by the Alaska National Interest Lands 

Conservation Act of 1980, and 

administered by the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service. 

DATES: All comments to this action 

should be received on or before 

December 2, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the State of 

Alaska’s application or the BLM Draft 

Summary Report must be filed with the 

Chief, Branch of Survey Planning and 

Preparation (AK–9270), Division of 

Cadastral Survey, BLM Alaska State 

Office, 222 West 7th Avenue, #13, 

Anchorage, Alaska 99513–7599. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack 

Frost, 907–271–5531; E-mail 

Jack_Frost@blm.gov; or visit the BLM 

Recordable Disclaimer of Interest Web 

site at http://www.blm.gov/ak/st/en/ 

prog/rdi.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

10, 2006, the State of Alaska filed an 

application for a Recordable Disclaimer 

of Interest pursuant to Section 315 of 

the Federal Lands Policy and 

Management Act and the regulations 

contained in 43 CFR Subpart 1864 for 

the lands underlying the Kuskokwim 

River (AA–086371). A Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest, if issued, will 

confirm that the United States has no 

valid interest in the subject lands. This 

notice is intended to notify the public 

of the pending application and the 

State’s grounds for supporting it. The 

State asserts that this river is navigable. 

Therefore, under the Equal Footing 

Doctrine, the Submerged Lands Act of 

1953, the Submerged Lands Act of 1988, 

the Alaska Statehood Act, or any other 

legally cognizable reason, ownership of 

these lands underlying the river 

automatically passed from the United 

States to the State at the time of 

statehood in 1959. 

The State’s application, AA–086371, 

is for ‘‘all submerged lands lying within 

the bed of the Kuskokwim River, and all 

interconnected sloughs, between the 

ordinary high water lines of the left and 

right banks from its origins at the 

confluence with the South Fork of 

Kuskokwim River and North Fork of 

Kuskokwim River within Township 28 

South, Range 22 East, Kateel River 

Meridian, Alaska, downstream to its 

confluence with the Kuskokwim Bay 

within Township 2 South, Range 77 

West, Seward Meridian, Alaska.’’ The 

State did not identify any known 

adverse claimant or occupant of the 

affected lands. 

A final decision on the merits of the 

application will not be made before 

December 2, 2010. During the 90-day 

period, interested parties may comment 

on the State’s application, AA–086371, 

and supporting evidence. Interested 

parties may also comment during this 

time on the BLM’s Draft Summary 

Report. The State’s application and the 

BLM Draft Summary Report may be 

viewed on the BLM Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest Web site at http:// 

www.blm.gov/ak/st/en/prog/rdi.html, or 

in the BLM Public Room located at 222 

West 7th Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

Alaska 99513. 

Comments filed with the Division of 

Cadastral Survey, including names and 

street addresses of commenters, will be 

available for public inspection at the 

BLM Alaska State Office (see ADDRESSES

above), during regular business hours 

7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except holidays. 

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. 

If no valid objection is received, a 

Disclaimer of Interest may be approved, 

if all else is proper, stating that the 

United States does not have a valid 

interest in these lands. 

Dated: July 9, 2010. 

Craig Frichtl, 

Chief, Branch of Survey Planning and 

Preparation. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22065 Filed 9–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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