page_title: Trementina Base
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Trementina Base / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing land plots near Trementina, New Mexico. Made from PD government plot maps overlaid on PD government satellite map image-fix to older file
context_page_description: Trementina Base is the popular designation for a property of the Scientology-affiliated Church of Spiritual Technology near Trementina, New Mexico.
context_section_description: The property history of Trementina Base is complex. The Federal Register shows that CST has owned two properties in the same area at different times. The one they originally built the underground vault on, between 1986 and 1992.
  Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Number: G-910-G3-0006-4210-04; NMNM 83264
  The United States issued an exchange conveyance document to the Church of Spiritual Technology, a California corporation, on August 24, 1992, for the surface estate in the following described land in San Miguel County, New Mexico, pursuant to section 206 of the Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716).
  New Mexico Principal Meridian T. 15 N., R. 22 E. ...Containing 400.00 acres (1.6187 km²).
  In exchange for the land described above, the Church of Spiritual Technology conveyed to the United States the surface estate in the following described land located in San Miguel County, New Mexico:
  New Mexico Principal Meridian T. 17 N., R. 23 E. ...Containing 400.00 acres (1.6187 km²).
  The values of the Federal public land and the non-Federal land in the exchange were appraised at $28,000.00. The public interest was served through the completion of this exchange.
  According to a June 1992 Claims Court ruling CST had purchased the original site in 1986 for $250,976, then had invested millions in building an underground vault on the property. The Federal Register record says both properties were valued at only $28,000 at the time of the land swap in August 1992. However, footage from KRQE TV shows the presence of a vault built into the mountainside between the runway and the CST logo.
caption: The two parcels of land in New Mexico
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