Order Providing for Opening of Public Land in Eddy County, New Mexico
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identifier: "/us/fr/01-25172"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Order Providing for Opening of Public Land in Eddy County, New Mexico"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "01-25172"
section_name: "Order Providing for Opening of Public Land in Eddy County, New Mexico"
positive_law: false
currency: "2001-10-09"
last_updated: "2001-10-09"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Interior Department"
document_number: "01-25172"
document_type: "notice"
publication_date: "2001-10-09"
agencies:
- "Interior Department"
- "Land Management Bureau"
fr_citation: "66 FR 51454"
fr_volume: 66
docket_ids:
- "NM 080-1430-HN"
- "NMNM 102330"
fr_action: "Notice."
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# Order Providing for Opening of Public Land in Eddy County, New Mexico
**AGENCY:**
Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
This order will open 14,951.78 acres which were segregated for an exchange under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716) as amended, to surface entry, mining, and mineral leasing. A decision has been made to not continue the exchange proposal. The land is described as follows:
| New Mexico Principal Meridian | Acres |
| --- | --- |
| T. 20
S., R. 22 E: | |
| Sec. 33, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S
SW
, and SW
SE | 255.53 |
| Sec. 34, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and S
S | 310.18 |
| Sec. 35, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and S
S | 325.09 |
| T. 21 S., R. 22 E: | |
| Sec. 01, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S
N
, and S | 640.40 |
| Sec. 04, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S
N
, and S | 640.32 |
| Sec. 11, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 12, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 13, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 14, E | 320.00 |
| Sec. 15, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 24, E | 320.00 |
| T. 20 S., R. 23 E: | |
| Sec. 33, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 35, all | 640.00 |
| T. 23 S., R. 23 E: | |
| Sec. 12, E
NE
, E
NW
, SW
NW
, and S | 520.00 |
| Sec. 13, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 22, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 23, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 24, all | 640.00 |
| T. 20 S., R. 24 E: | |
| Sec. 17, S | 320.00 |
| Sec. 18, lots 3, 4, E
SW
, and SE | 318.85 |
| T. 23 S., R. 24 E: | |
| Sec. 03, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S
N
, S | 634.28 |
| Sec. 10, all | 640.00 |
| T. 20 S., R. 25 E: | |
| Sec. 30, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, W
NE
, SE
NE
, E
W
, and SE | 600.32 |
| Sec. 33, all | 640.00 |
| T. 25 S., R. 27 E: | |
| Sec. 04, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S
N
, and S | 637.04 |
| Sec. 06, lots 3 to 7, inclusive, SE
NW
, and E
SW | 310.91 |
| Sec. 17, all | 640.00 |
| Sec. 18, lots 3, 4, E
, and E
SW | 478.86 |
| Containing 14,951.78 acres, more or less | |
**EFFECTIVE DATE:**
October 9, 2001.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Bobbe Young, BLM Carlsbad Field Office, 620 E. Greene, Carlsbad, NM 88220, (505) 234-5963.
Dated: September 11, 2001.
Leslie A. Theiss,
Carlsbad Field Manager.