[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: 29 Palms (CA) shrinks Land Withdrawal proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
January 26, 2010

Navy Requests Partial Cancellation for Marine Corps Land Withdrawal

The U.S. Department of the Navy has requested the Bureau of Land 
Management (BLM) remove approximately 33,488 acres of public lands from 
its application to withdraw the lands for the proposed expansion of the 
U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms.

The partial cancellation, published in the January 25, 2010 Federal 
Register, is available on line at www.blm.gov/ca and includes the legal 
descriptions of the areas affected.  The cancellation is effective Feb. 
24, 2010.

A previous notice published September 15, 2008, segregated the public 
lands involved for two years, making them unavailable for settlement, 
sale, and location of claims under the mining laws.

The Department of the Navy, as required by the 1958 Engle Act, filed the 
application requesting the Secretary of the Interior to process a 
proposed legislative withdrawal of public lands for military training 
and exercises involving the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at 
Twentynine Palms.

The initial application was for the transfer of jurisdiction of 365,906 
acres of federal land, 64,407 acres of privately owned land and 7,779 
acres of state owned land to the Department of the Navy for the Marine 
Corps base expansion.   In addition to the 33,488 acres of federal land 
being removed from the application, 24,837 acres of privately owned land 
and 4,034 acres of state land are being removed from the application.


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For the original press release, go to
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2010/january/navy_requests_partial.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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