Notice of Application for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest: Tarrant County, Texas
| Published date | 10 October 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 54633 |
| Record Number | 2019-22219 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Interior Department,Land Management Bureau |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54633-54634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22219]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLNM004000 L54200000.FR0000 LVDIG18ZGKQ0 18X]
Notice of Application for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest:
Tarrant County, Texas
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received an application
for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest (Disclaimer of Interest) from
Frances Corn Chandler, Howard Fielding Chandler, Alexander Marr
Chandler, Lewis Matthews Chandler, Jere Jean Yeager, and Kathryn Louise
Kronawitter, heirs of Virginia C. Yeager and Opal Keating, pursuant to
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, and BLM
regulations, for certain mineral estate in Tarrant County, Texas. This
notice is intended to inform the public of the pending application,
give notice of the BLM's intention to grant the Disclaimer of Interest
and provide a public comment period for the Disclaimer of Interest.
DATES: Comments on this action should be received by January 8, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments must be sent to the Deputy State Director,
Lands and Resources, BLM, New Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail,
Santa Fe, NM 87508. Comments, including names and street addresses of
commenters, will be available for public review at the BLM New Mexico
State Office, during regular business hours, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. Additional information pertaining to this
application can be reviewed in case file TXNM138111 in the BLM Oklahoma
Field Office, 201 Stephenson Parkway, Room 1200, Norman, OK 73072-2037.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Ledbetter, Realty Specialist, BLM
Oklahoma Field Office; telephone: 405-579-7172; email:
[email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339
to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The
Service 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: The purpose of this Disclaimer of Interest
is to remove a cloud on the title of a mineral interest of a parcel of
land situated in Tarrant County, Texas.
The BLM received an application for a Disclaimer of Interest from
the heirs of Virginia C. Yeager and Opal Keating for the mineral estate
of land lying near the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers' (Corps) Benbrook
Lake in Tarrant County, Texas. This is a subsequent application from
these applicants and pertains to a second mineral interest lying
adjacent to the mineral estate that was the subject of the applicants'
initial Disclaimer of Interest. The mineral estate subject to the
initial application is identified as Tract C-214 and a portion of Tract
C-215 located within the John T. Gilliland Survey (A-610) and the
William Hunter Survey (A-734). The resulting Disclaimer of Interest
disclaimed any interest the United States may have had in Tract C-214
and a portion of Tract C-215. This Disclaimer of Interest, issued in
2016, was executed by the BLM based upon the opinions of the U.S.
Attorney General, Corps, and the BLM acknowledging the minerals
underlying the Hunter and Gilliland surveys were severed from the
surface estate in 1922 via the mineral deed from J.W. Corn to Virginia
C. Yeager and Opal Keating as recorded in Volume 745, Page 578, Tarrant
County, Texas; and the mineral interest under the Hunter and Gilliland
surveys was never acquired by the Corps.
The pending second application from the heirs of Yeager and Keating
addresses the mineral estate under the Hunter and Gilliland surveys
within Corps Tract B-115. Tract B-115 is located within seven separate
surveys and has multiple, complex chains of title for the various
parcels making up Tract B-115. The applicants' second application seeks
a Disclaimer of Interest for the western portions of Tract B-115 that
are within the Gilliland and Hunter surveys only. The applicants are
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making no claim to the minerals in the eastern portion of Tract B-115
that are within the other five surveys. A review of the land status
records and title records provided by the applicants indicate that the
Corps purchased Tract B-115 in May 1950. As was the case in the initial
Disclaimer of Interest, prior to the Corps' acquisition of Tract B-115,
the mineral estate was transferred from J.W. Corn to his daughters, and
the Corps did not acquire the mineral estate under Tract B-115. In
order to remove the cloud on the title, the BLM intends to disclaim the
land described as:
All that portion of Tract B-115, located within the John T.
Gilliland Survey, A-610, and the William Hunter Survey, A-734 (minerals
only).
Tract B-115, situated in the County of Tarrant, State of Texas, the
Tract described is shown upon a portion the U.S. Army, Corps, Office of
the Fort Worth District Engineer, Southwest Project Map, entitled
``REAL ESTATE BENBROOK LAKE,'' dated November 5, 1986, supplementing
this Disclaimer of Interest. The area contains 73.12 acres as
identified by the Corps documents listed above.
This Disclaimer of Interest does not address any surface interest
that may still be vested with the United States of America.
The public is hereby notified that comments may be submitted to the
Deputy State Director, Lands and Resources, at the address shown
earlier within the comment period identified in this notice. Any
adverse comments will be evaluated by the State Director who may modify
or vacate this action and issue a final determination.
In the absence of any valid objection, this notice will become the
final determination of the Department of the Interior and a Disclaimer
of Interest may be issued 90 days from publication of this notice.
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
(Authority: 43 CFR 1864.2(a))
Melanie G. Barnes,
Deputy State Director, Land and Resources.
[FR Doc. 2019-22219 Filed 10-9-19; 8:45 am]
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