Notice2024-00266
Public Land Order No. 7934; Partial Revocation of Four Secretarial Orders for the Grand Valley Reclamation Project and Opening Order; Colorado
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Published
January 9, 2024
Effective
January 9, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
This Order partially revokes four withdrawals created by Secretarial Orders dated July 2, 1902, August 26, 1902, February 28, 1908, and July 25, 1908, issued pursuant to the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, Section 3, to support the Bureau of Reclamation's (BOR's) Grand Valley Reclamation Project. The BOR has determined that 31.10 acres of the withdrawn land are no longer needed for reclamation purposes and has asked that the withdrawals be partially revoked as to these acres. This Order also opens these 31.10 acres to appropriation under the public land laws, subject to valid existing rights. The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing and will remain closed to location and entry under the United States mining laws.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1126-1127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00266]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCO-923000.L1440000.ET0000; COC 028254]
Public Land Order No. 7934; Partial Revocation of Four
Secretarial Orders for the Grand Valley Reclamation Project and Opening
Order; Colorado
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This Order partially revokes four withdrawals created by
Secretarial Orders dated July 2, 1902, August 26, 1902, February 28,
1908, and July 25, 1908, issued pursuant to the Reclamation Act of June
17, 1902, Section 3, to support the Bureau of Reclamation's (BOR's)
Grand Valley Reclamation Project. The BOR has determined that 31.10
acres of the withdrawn land are no longer needed for reclamation
purposes and has asked that the withdrawals be partially revoked as to
these acres. This Order also opens these 31.10 acres to appropriation
under the public land laws, subject to valid existing rights. The land
has been and will remain open to mineral leasing and will remain closed
to location and entry under the United States mining laws.
DATES: This Public Land Order takes effect on January 9, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Jardine, BLM, Colorado State
Office, at 970-385-1224, email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6a00000b180e03040f2a080607440d051c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="583232392a3c31363d183a3435763f372e">[email protected]</span></a>, or write to Branch
of Lands and Realty, P.O. Box 151029, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7093.
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
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the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BOR requested a partial withdrawal
revocation and opening of 31.10 acres of land originally withdrawn in
support of the Grand Valley Reclamation Project created by four
Secretarial Orders dated July 2, 1902, August 26, 1902, February 28,
1908, and July 25, 1908. The Secretarial Orders classified the land for
potential irrigation project purposes. The BOR has determined that the
land is no longer needed for reclamation purposes. The revocation of
the withdrawal as to these 31.10 acres
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would allow the land to be conveyed out of Federal ownership in a
proposed land sale. Any land 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 Secretarial Orders dated July 2,
1902, August 26, 1902, February 28, 1908, and July 25, 1908, which
withdrew public land for use by the Bureau of Reclamation for the Grand
Valley Reclamation Project, are hereby partially revoked as to the
following described land:
A parcel of land situated in the southwest quarter (SW\1/4\) of the
northwest quarter (NW\1/4\) of Section 2, Township 1 South, Range 1
East, Ute Principal Meridian, Mesa County, Colorado, being the results
of a survey of an irregular bounded portion of land and being more
particularly described as follows:
Commencing at the \1/4\ section corner of sections 2 and 3, marked
with a 2\1/2\ inch diameter brass disk with illegible marks;
Thence, North 00[deg]00'03'' East, on the line between sections 2
and 3, identical with the right-of-way center line of a Mesa County
Road, a distance of 567.65 feet to the point of beginning of the herein
described parcel;
Thence, North 00[deg]00'03'' East, continuing on the section line,
identical with the right-of-way line of a Mesa County Road, a distance
of 735.03 feet to the north \1/16\ section corner of sections 2 and 3,
marked with a 2\1/2\ inch diameter plastic pipe with cap marked T1S
N\1/16\ S3 S2 R1E LS18467 1984;
Thence, South 89[deg]59'55' East, on the east and west center line
of the north half (N\1/2\) of section 2, a distance of 1313.84 feet to
the northwest \1/16\ section corner of section 2, marked with a 2-inch
diameter plastic pipe with cap marked T.1S. NW\1/16\ S2 R.1E. 18467
1987;
Thence, South 00[deg]07'42'' East, on the north and south center
line of the northwest quarter (NW\1/4\) of section 2, a distance of
724.06 feet to a non-tangential point of curvature to the left, concave
southeasterly;
Thence, with said curve through a central (delta) angle of
89[deg]14'37'', having a radius of 169.74 feet, an arc distance of
264.38 feet; the long chord bears South 24[deg]05'46'' West, a distance
of 238.46 feet to the point of tangency;
Thence, South 20[deg]31'31'' East, a distance of 86.84 feet to a
point of curvature to the right, concave northwesterly;
Thence, with said curve through a central (delta) angle of
105[deg]49'07'', having a radius of 76.15 feet, an arc distance of
140.64 feet; the long chord bears South 32[deg]22'55'' West, a distance
of 121.49 feet to the point of tangency;
Thence, South 85[deg]17'24'' West, a distance of 511.91 feet to a
point of curvature to the right, concave northeasterly;
Thence, with said curve through a central (delta) angle of
49[deg]51'04'', having a radius of 231.96 feet, an arc distance of
201.82 feet; the long chord bears North 69[deg]47'02'' West, a distance
of 195.52 feet to the point of tangency;
Thence, North 44[deg]51'28'' West, a distance of 101.87 feet;
Thence, North 53[deg]50'16'' West, a distance of 200.63 feet;
Thence, North 55[deg]43'04'' West, a distance of 309.84 feet to the
point of beginning.
Basis of Bearings: North 00[deg]00'03'' East, being the bearing
from said \1/4\ section corner of sections 2 and 3 to said north \1/16\
section corner of sections 2 and 3.
Meaning and intending to revoke the withdrawal on that portion of
the southwest quarter (SW\1/4\) of the northwest quarter (NW\1/4\) of
section 2 lying northly of said irregular boundary.
The area described contains 31.10 acres in Mesa County.
2. At 8 a.m. Mountain Time (MT) on January 9, 2024, the land
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 9, 2024, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order
of filing. Appropriation of any of the land referenced in this PLO
prior to the date and time of revocation and opening remain
unauthorized. The land will remain closed to location and entry under
the United States mining laws until such time as the land is conveyed
out of Federal control or an opening order is issued pursuant to 43 CFR
2091.6.
(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714)
Robert T. Anderson,
Solicitor.
[FR Doc. 2024-00266 Filed 1-8-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4322-90-P
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