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1990 Interior Dec. (IBLA) 261 (1990)

handle is hein.amindian/ibla1990 and id is 1 raw text is: WHEATON D. BLANCHARD

IBLA 88-57                                     Decided Jauary 4, 1990
Appeal from a decision of the California State Office, Bureau of Land Management, denying
petition for deferment of annual assessment work. CA MC 180378-3 83
Affirmed.
1.    Mining Claims: Generally--Mining Claims: Assessment Work
To be entitled to a deferment from the requirement to perform annual
assessment work on mining claims, a peti-tioner must show that he was
prevented from performance of the work by denial of access to the
claims for the purpose of doing such work. Failure to show that one of
the impediments to such performance listed by 30 U.S.C. § 28b (1982)
prevented access to the mining claims requires rejection of a deferment
application.
APPEARANCES: King G. McPherson, Esq., Nevada City, California, for appellant.
OPINION BY ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE ARNESS
Wheaton D. Blanchard has appealed from a decision of the California State Office, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), dated September 23, 1987, denying his petition for deferment of annual
assessment work for the Manzanita group of mining claims, CA MC 180378 through CA MC 180383.
On June 10, 1986, Wheaton D. Blanchard and Marion 0. Blanchard relocated the Manzanita claims in
Nevada County, California. On July 20, 1987, they filed a notice of intention to hold the claims and a
petition for deferment of annual assessment work. The petition for deferment recites:
KEN ROUSE, SANDRA ROUSE, GENE ROUSE AND KATHY ROUSE have
filed Placer location notices on February 26, 1986, over most of the same ground
encompassed by the claims of Petitioners. On the 19th day of May, 1986, and again
on the 14th day of May, 1987, Petitioners had their agent CONNER McLUCKIE try
to access onto the claims and access was denied by KEN ROUSE, who was armed and
told MR. MCLUCKIE in no uncertain terms that he could not access onto

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