Desert Land Entry Application (43 CFR Part 2520)

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that the applicant is the surface owner
that overlies the Federally-owned
mineral rights and that statutory
requirements for their conveyance are
met. The regulations under 43 CFR Part
2720 authorize BLM to collect
information (no specific form is
required) to convey Federally-owned
mineral interests to surface owners if
certain conditions are met.
DATES: You must submit your comments
to the address below no later than
November 24, 2008. Comments received
or postmarked after this date may not be
considered.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Director (630), Bureau of Land
Management, Mail Stop 401 LS, 1849 C
St., NW., (Attention: 1004–0153),
Washington, DC 20240.
Personal or messenger delivery: 1620
L Street, NW., Room 401, Washington,
DC 20036.
E-mail:
[email protected] (Attn.:
1004–0153).
All comments will be available for
public review at the L Street address
during regular business hours (7:45 a.m.
to 4:15 p.m.), Monday through Friday
except Federal holidays. Before
including your address, telephone
number, e-mail address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, be advised that your entire
comment—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask in your comment to
withhold from public review your
personal identifying information, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
may contact Alzata L. Ransom, Division
of Lands, Realty and Cadastral Survey,
on (202) 452–7772 (Commercial or FTS).
Persons who use a telecommunication
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) on 1–800–877–8330, 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, to contact Ms.
Ransom.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 CFR
1320.12(a) requires that we provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning a collection of information
to solicit comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
functioning of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of our estimates of
the information collection burden,

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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions we use;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the information
collection burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Section 209 of the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976 and
implementing regulations at 43 CFR part
2720 establish procedures for BLM to
convey Federally-owned (reserved)
mineral interests to non-Federal surface
ownership, if the value of the surface
use or planned use exceeds the value of
the mineral rights, or that there are no
minerals there, and that the mineral
rights prevent beneficial surface use.
The regulations authorize BLM to
collect this information (no specific
form is required) to determine if BLM
may convey the Federally-owned
mineral interests to surface owners who
apply and meet the statutory
requirements. We list in 43 CFR 2720.1–
2 the specific information requirements
you must submit when applying for a
conveyance of Federally-owned mineral
interests. Without this information,
BLM would not be able to analyze and
approve applications to convey
Federally-owned mineral interests that
interfere with beneficial surface uses.
Based upon BLM experience
administering the regulations, we
estimate the public reporting
information collection burden to be 10
hours per application. The respondents
are surface owners in which the mineral
interests are reserved or owned by the
United States. The estimated number of
responses per year is 30 and the total
annual burden is 300 hours.
BLM will summarize all responses to
this notice and include them in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: September 18, 2008.
Ted R. Hudson,
Acting Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Bureau of Land Management.
[FR Doc. E8–22244 Filed 9–22–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO–350–1430–PF–24 1A]

Extension of Approved Information
Collection, OMB Control Number 1004–
0004
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
requests the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to extend an existing
approval to collect information from
those persons who submit Form 2520–
1 to apply for a desert-land entry to
reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate arid and
semiarid public lands in the Western
United States. The BLM uses this
information to determine if the
applicant is eligible to make a desertland entry under the appropriate land
entry laws.
DATES: You must submit your comments
to BLM at the address below on or
before November 24, 2008. BLM will not
necessarily consider any comments
postmarked or received after the above
date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Director (630), Bureau of Land
Management, Mail Stop 401 LS, 1849 C
St., NW., (Attention: 1004–0004),
Washington, DC 20240.
Personal or messenger delivery: 1620
L Street, NW., Room 401, Washington,
DC 20036.
E-mail:
[email protected] (Attn.:
1004–0004)
Comments will be available for public
review at the L Street address during
regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:15
p.m.), Monday through Friday,
excluding Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
may contact Alzata L. Ransom, Division
of Lands, Realty and Cadastral Survey,
on (202) 452–7772 (Commercial or FTS).
Persons who use a telecommunication
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) on 1–800–877–8330, 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, to contact Ms.
Ransom.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 CFR
1320.12(a) requires that we provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning a collection of information
to solicit comments on:

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(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
functioning of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of our estimates of
the information collection burden,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions we use;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the information
collection burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Congress passed the Desert Land Act
of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 377; 43 U.S.C.
321–323), as amended by the Act of
March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1096; 43 U.S.C.
231, 323, 325, 327–329) to encourage
and promote the economic development
of the arid and semiarid public lands.
Through the Act, you may apply for a
desert-land entry to reclaim, irrigate,
and cultivate arid and semiarid public
lands in the Western United States.
The regulations in 43 CFR part 2520
provide guidelines and procedures to
obtain public lands under the Act. You
qualify to file a desert-land entry if you
are a citizen of the United States; 21
years old; and a resident in the States of
Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Utah, Washington, or
Wyoming (no residency is required in
the State of Nevada).
You may apply for one or more tracts
of public lands totaling no more than
320 acres. The land must be surveyed or
unsurveyed, unappropriated, nonmineral, and non-timber. The lands
must be suitable for agricultural
purposes and more valuable for that
purpose than any other. The tracts of
land must be sufficiently close to each
other to manage satisfactorily as an
economic unit.
You must locate lands you feel can be
economically developed and determine
the legal land description. You must
contact the BLM State Office where the
lands are located and verify the lands
are available for desert-land entry
application.
When BLM receives the application,
we will examine your application for
completeness and accuracy and classify
the lands included in the application.
BLM will approve your application of
the lands are classified suitable for
desert-land entry or reject your
application if the lands are classified
unsuitable for desert-land entry.

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Based on past experience processing
these applications, BLM estimates the
public reporting burden for completing
the Form 2520–1 is 2 hours. BLM
estimates that we receive approximately
3 applications annually, with a total
annual burden of 6 hours.
Any member of the public may
request and obtain, without charge, a
copy of the BLM Form 2520–1 by
contacting the person identified under
for further information contact.
BLM will summarize all responses to
this notice and include them in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: September 18, 2008.
Ted Hudson,
Acting Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Bureau of Land Management.
[FR Doc. E8–22250 Filed 9–22–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[AZ–956–08–1420–BJ]

Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey;
Arizona
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The plats of survey of the
described lands were officially filed in
the Arizona State Office, Bureau of Land
Management, Phoenix, Arizona, on
dates indicated.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Gila and Salt River Meridian,
Arizona:
The plat representing the survey of
the metes-and-bounds surveys in
sections 7 and 8, Township 21 North,
Range 3 East, accepted January 16, 2008,
and officially filed January 22, 2008, for
Group 1020, Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the United States Forest Service.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the north
boundary and the corrective dependent
resurveys of a portion of the
subdivisional lines, a portion of the
1892 and 1973–75 meanders of the left
bank of the Verde River through section
5, a portion of the subdivision of the
northwest quarter of section 5, and a
portion of a metes-and-bounds survey in
the northwest quarter of section 5,
Township 13 North, Range 5 East,
accepted January 10, 2008, and officially
filed January 15, 2008, for Group 916,
Arizona.

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This plat was prepared at the request
of the United States Forest Service.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the
subdivisional lines and the subdivision
of section 28, Township 20 North,
Range 7 East, accepted November 23,
2007, and officially filed November 29,
2007, for Group 1016, Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the United States Forest Service.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of the Fourth Guide Meridian
East (east boundary), the south and
north boundaries and the subdivisional
lines and the survey of the subdivision
of all sections, Township 22 North,
Range 16 East, accepted December 6,
2007, and officially filed December 13,
2007, for Group 958, Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo
Regional Office.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of the south, west and north
boundaries, and the subdivisional lines,
and the subdivision of all sections,
Township 23 North, Range 18 East,
accepted April 7, 2008, and officially
filed April 11, 2008, for Group 1015,
Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo
Regional Office.
The plat (3 sheets) representing the
dependent resurvey of the Sixth
Standard Parallel North (south
boundary), Township 25 North, Range
17 East, the Sixth Standard Parallel
North (south boundary) Township 25
North, Range 18 East, which are
identical with portions of the HopiNavajo Partition Line, Segment ‘‘A’’ and
the dependent resurvey of portions of
the Hopi-Navajo Partition Line, Segment
‘‘A’’, the east and west boundaries and
the subdivisional lines and the
subdivision of certain sections and
metes-and bounds surveys, Township
24 North, Range 18 East, accepted
September 2, 2008, and officially filed
September 5, 2008, for Group 1023,
Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo
Regional Office.
The supplemental plat of section 6,
Township 30 North, Range 18 East,
accepted August 14, 2008, and officially
filed August 19, 2008, for Group 887,
Arizona.
This plat was prepared at the request
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Western
Regional Office.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of the south and west
boundaries, the subdivisional lines, and
the subdivision of sections 6, 24, 32 and
34, Township 22 North, Range 19 East,

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