[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR1864.1-2]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 1860_CONVEYANCES, DISCLAIMERS AND CORRECTION DOCUMENTS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart 1864_Recordable Disclaimers of Interest in Land
 
Sec. 1864.1-2  Form of application.

    (a) No specific form of application is required.
    (b) A nonrefundable fee of $100 shall accompany the application.
    (c) Each application shall include:
    (1) A legal description of the lands for which a disclaimer is 
sought. The legal description shall be based on either an official 
United States public land survey or, in the absence of or 
inappropriateness (irregularly shaped tracts) of an offical public land 
survey, a metes and bounds survey (whenever practicable, tied to the 
nearest corner of an official public land survey), duly certified in 
accordance with State law, by the licensed civil engineer or surveyor 
who executed or supervised the execution of the metes and bounds survey. 
A true copy of the field notes and plat of survey shall be attached to 
and made a part of the application. If reliance is placed in whole or in 
part on an official United States public land survey, such survey shall 
be adequately identified for record retrieval purposes;
    (2) The applicant's name, mailing address, and telephone number and 
the names addresses and telephone numbers of others known or believed to 
have or claim an interest in the lands;
    (3) All documents which show to the satisfaction of the authorized 
officer the applicant's title to the lands;
    (4) As complete a statement as possible concerning:
    (i) The nature and extent of the cloud on the title, and
    (ii) The reasons the applicant believes:
    (A) The record title interest of the United States in the lands 
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the application has terminated by operation of law or is otherwise 
invalid, including a copy or legal citation of relevant provisions of 
law; or
    (B) The lands between the meander line shown on the plat of survey 
approved by the Bureau of Land Management or its predecessors and the 
actual shoreline of a body of water are not lands of the United States, 
including as documentation an official plat of survey or a reference to 
a date of filing or approval and, if the applicant elects, any non-
Federal survey plats related to the issue; or
    (C) The lands are accreted, relicted or avulsed and are no longer 
lands of the United States, including submission for the uplands portion 
of the body of water affected a copy of an official plat of survey or a 
reference to it by date of filing or approval and, if the applicant 
elects, any non-Federal survey plats related to the issue;
    (5) Any available documents or title evidence, such as historical 
and current maps, photographs, and water movement data, that support the 
application;
    (6) The name, mailing address, and telephone number of any known 
adverse claimant or occupant of the lands included in the application;
    (7) Any request the applicant may have that the disclaimer be issued 
in a particular form suitable for use in the jurisdiction in which it 
will be recorded; and
    (d) Based on prior discussions with the applicant, the authorized 
officer may waive any or all of the aforementioned items if in his/her 
opinion they are not needed to properly adjudicate that application.