Notice of Potential Sale: Direct Sale requested by the Bridgeport Indian Colony, Bridgeport, California; Notice of Intent: To consider amending the Bishop Resource Management Plan, Bishop Field Office, California

Résumé

The BLM's Bishop Field Office has received an application from the Bridgeport Indian Colony to purchase at fair market value a 40 acre parcel adjacent to their existing reservation. The Tribe currently has a 40 acre reservation northeast of Bridgeport, Mono County, CA. The Tribe has been attempting to increase the size of their reservation to provide land for economic development, residential use and community services, including formal requests for withdrawal to the Bureau of Land Management as early as 1983. During development of the Bishop Resource Management Plan (approved March 1993), public land was identified for transfer to other tribal governments within the planning area. Despite the tribe's previously expressed interest in the adjacent 40 acres, the parcel was not evaluated for disposal to the tribe. The tribe has now formally requested that this 40 acre parcel immediately adjacent to the existing reservation be made available to them through a direct sale under the authority of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Sec. 203 (43 USC 1713). The requested sale would involve the following lands located northeast of Bridgeport and adjacent to Highway 182 in the County