[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 136 (Friday, July 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 41520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-17421]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNM920000 L13100000 FI0000; NMLC 066147]


Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of Terminated Oil and Gas Lease 
NMLC 066147, New Mexico

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Reinstatement of Terminated Oil and Gas Lease.

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SUMMARY: Under the Class II provisions of the Federal Oil and Gas 
Royalty Management Act of 1982, the Bureau of Land Management received 
a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease NMLC 066147 from the 
lessee(s), Estate of C.W. Trainer, Zia Royalty LLC, Grady Thompson, 
Collin S. Smith, R.G. Barton Jr., Trust, E.F. Howe, HOG Partnership LP, 
Phillip G. Herkenhuff, Gordon E. Herkenhuff, Edna Gay H. Dwyre, Devon 
Energy Production Company LP, College of Southwest, George W. Baker, 
for lands in Lea County, New Mexico. The petition was filed on time and 
was accompanied by all the rentals due since the date the lease 
terminated under the law.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lourdes B. Ortiz, Bureau of Land 
Management, New Mexico State Office, P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe, New 
Mexico 87502-0115 or at (505) 954-2146.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No valid lease has been issued that affects 
the lands. The lessees agree to new lease terms for rentals and 
royalties of $10 per acre or a fraction thereof, per year, and 18 \2/3\ 
percent, respectively. The lessees paid the required $500 
administrative fee for the reinstatement of the lease and the $166 cost 
for publishing this Notice in the Federal Register. The lessees met all 
the requirements for reinstatement of the lease as set out in Section 
31(d) and (e) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 188). We 
are proposing to reinstate lease NMLC 066147, effective the date of 
termination, December 1, 2009, under the original terms and conditions 
of the lease and the increased rental and royalty rates cited above.

Lourdes B. Ortiz,
Land Law Examiner, Fluids Adjudication Team.
[FR Doc. 2010-17421 Filed 7-15-10; 8:45 am]
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