Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; Montana

AGENCY:

Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of filing of plats of survey.

SUMMARY:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of survey of the lands described below in the BLM Montana State Office, Billings, Montana, on August 26, 2011.

DATES:

Protests of the survey must be filed before August 26, 2011 to be considered.

ADDRESSES:

Protests of the survey should be sent to the Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101-4669.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marvin Montoya, Cadastral Surveyor, Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101-4669, telephone (406) 896-5124 or (406) 896-5009, Marvin_Montoya@blm.gov. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This survey was executed at the request of the Regional Director, Rocky Mountain Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and was necessary to determine boundaries of individual and tribal trust lands.

The lands we surveyed are:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 27 N., R. 47 E.

The plat, in two sheets, representing the corrective dependent resurvey of a portion of the line between sections 29 and 30, the dependent resurvey of a portion of the subdivisional lines, a portion of the subdivision of sections 21, 28, and 29, and the adjusted original meanders of the former left bank of the Missouri River, downstream, through sections 21, 29, and 30, the subdivision of sections 21, 28, and 29, and the survey of the meanders of the present left bank of the Missouri River and informative traverse, downstream, through portions of sections 21, 28, and 29, the limits of erosion and informative traverse in sections 28 and 29, the left bank and the medial line of a relicted channel of the Missouri River and informative traverse, in sections 29 and 30, and certain division of accretion and partition lines, Township 27 North, Range 47 East, Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted July 11, 2011.

We will place a copy of the plat, in two sheets, and related field notes we described in the open files. They will be available to the public as a matter of information. If the BLM receives a protest against this survey, as shown on this plat, in two sheets, prior to the date of the official filing, we will stay the filing pending our consideration of the protest. We will not officially file this plat, in two sheets, until the day after we have accepted or dismissed all protests and they have become final, including decisions or appeals.

Authority: 43 U.S.C. Chap. 3.