[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71814-71818]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-29393]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[LLWO100000, L18200000.XX0000]
Oil, Gas, and Potash Leasing and Development Within the
Designated Potash Area of Eddy and Lea Counties, NM
AGENCY: Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Secretary's Order 3324.
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SUMMARY: Secretary's Order 3324 revises and supersedes the Order of the
Secretary of the Interior, dated October 28, 1986 (51 FR 39425), and
corrected on August 26, 1987 (52 FR 32171), and provides procedures and
guidelines for more orderly co-development of oil and gas and potash
deposits owned by the United States within the Designated Potash Area
through safe, concurrent operations.
DATES: Effective Date: December 3, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tony Herrell; telephone 505-954-2222;
301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Secretary's Order 3324 reads as follows:
Order No. 3324
Sec. 1 Purpose and Effect. This Order revises and supersedes the
Order of the Secretary of the Interior, dated October 28, 1986 (51 FR
39425), and corrected on August 26, 1987 (52 FR 32171), and provides
procedures and guidelines for more orderly co-development of oil and
gas and potash deposits owned by the United States within the
Designated Potash Area through safe, concurrent operations.
Sec. 2 Authority. This Order is issued in accordance with the
authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior in the Mineral
Leasing Act of 1920, as amended and supplemented (30 U.S.C. 181 et
seq.); the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947, as amended
(30 U.S.C. 351-359); the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and regulations and onshore
orders implementing these statutes.
Sec. 3 Order Revised and Superseded. The Order of the Secretary of
the Interior dated October 28, 1986 (51 FR 39425), and corrected on
August 26, 1987 (52 FR 32171), is hereby superseded by this revised
Order. The following provisions will apply to concurrent operations in
prospecting for, developing, and producing oil and gas and potash
deposits owned by the United States within the Designated Potash Area.
Sec. 4 Definitions.
a. Authorized Officer. Any employee of the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) authorized to perform duties described in 43 CFR parts
3000, 3100, and 3500, as delegated in the BLM Manual.
b. Barren Area. An area established by the BLM within the
Designated Potash Area for which sufficient data is available to
establish a lack of potash mineralization in sufficient thickness and
quality to be mineable under existing technology and economics.
c. Buffer Zone. Areas established by the BLM within the Designated
Potash Area:
(1) Extending outward a certain distance from the perimeter of
existing underground open mine workings within which oil or gas
operations are generally not allowed due to a BLM determination that
oil or gas drilling could constitute a hazard to or interfere with
orderly potash mining operations, or
(2) Extending outward a certain distance from operating oil or gas
well(s) or established Drilling Islands within which potash operations
are generally not allowed due to a BLM determination that potash mining
or exploration operations could constitute a hazard to or interfere
with orderly oil or gas operations.
d. Co-development. The concurrent development of oil and gas and
potash resources within the Designated Potash Area. Co-development is a
cooperative effort between industries under the guidelines of this
order, as regulated by the BLM, to support production of potash and oil
and gas from the lands within the Designated Potash Area.
e. Designated Potash Area. The land area described in Section 8 of
this Order.
f. Development Area. An area established by the BLM within the
Designated Potash Area in consideration of appropriate oil and gas
technology such that wells can be drilled from a Drilling Island
capable of effectively extracting oil and gas resources while
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managing the impact on potash resources. Each Development Area will
typically have only one Drilling Island, subject to narrow exceptions
based on specific facts and circumstances. All new oil and gas wells
that penetrate the potash formations within a Development Area will be
drilled from the Drilling Island(s) associated with that Development
Area. The boundaries of each Development Area will be determined in
conformity with Section 6.e.(2).
g. Drilling Island. An area established by the BLM, usually
associated with and within a Development Area, from which all new
drilling of vertical, directional, or horizontal wells that newly
penetrate the potash formations can be performed in order to support
the development of oil and gas resources. The size and shape of a
Drilling Island defines the area where wellbore penetrations of the
potash formations will be allowed; this area is to be as small as
practical to allow effective oil and gas development while managing
impacts on potash.
h. Indicated Resources. Potash resources from which tonnage, grade,
and mineral content are computed partly from specific measurements and
samples, and partly from projection of geologic evidence. Indicated
Resources are estimated at a lower level of confidence than Measured
Reserves.
i. Inferred Resources. Potash resources which are probable,
considering reasonably correlated data from lithologic descriptions and
well logs, but for which tonnage and grade cannot be computed due to
the absence of specific data.
j. Joint Industry Technical Committee. A committee established by,
and subject to the management and control of, the potash mining
industry and the oil and gas industry whose role is to study how
concurrent development of potash and oil and gas can be safely
performed in proximity to each other. While the committee may provide
input to the BLM on such matters as indicated herein or otherwise at
its discretion, it will not be subject to the BLM's management or
control.
k. Measured Reserves (also known as ``Potash Enclave''). Areas
within the Designated Potash Area where potash is known to exist in
sufficient thickness and quality to be mineable under existing
technology and economics.
l. Potash. Potassium and associated minerals as specified in the
Act of February 27, 1927 (30 U.S.C. 281-287).
m. Unknown Area. An area within the Designated Potash Area where
there is an absence of data for the BLM to classify the mineralization
as Measured Reserves, Indicated Resources, Inferred Resources, or
Barren Area.
Sec. 5 Status of Lands. This Order will not affect the current
status of lands with respect to their being withdrawn from or open to
entry or leasing.
Sec. 6 General Provisions.
a. Issuance of Oil and Gas Leases. The Department of the Interior
reaffirms its policy that the lease stipulations contained in the Order
of the Secretary of the Interior dated October 28, 1986, and corrected
on August 26, 1987 (52 FR 32171), are necessary to protect the rights
of the oil and gas and potash lessees and operators. Therefore, each
successful applicant for a noncompetitive oil and gas lease, and any
party awarded a competitive lease, for lands included in the Designated
Potash Area, is required, as a condition to the issuance of such lease,
to execute a stipulation to the lease as follows:
(1) Drilling for oil and gas shall be permitted only in the event
that the lessee establishes to the satisfaction of the Authorized
Officer, BLM, that such drilling will not interfere with the mining and
recovery of potash deposits, or the interest of the United States will
best be served by permitting such drilling.
(2) No wells shall be drilled for oil or gas at a location which,
in the opinion of the Authorized Officer, would result in undue waste
of potash deposits or constitute a hazard to or unduly interfere with
mining operations being conducted for the extraction of potash
deposits.
(3) When the Authorized Officer determines that unitization is
necessary for orderly oil and gas development and proper protection of
potash deposits, no well shall be drilled for oil or gas except
pursuant to a unit plan approved by the Authorized Officer.
(4) The drilling or the abandonment of any well on said lease shall
be done in accordance with applicable oil and gas operating regulations
(43 CFR 3160), including such requirements as the Authorized Officer
may prescribe as necessary to prevent the infiltration of oil, gas, or
water into formations containing potash deposits or into mines or
workings being utilized in the extraction of such deposits. In
addition, the Authorized Officer will include a lease provision which
states that drilling for and production of oil and gas will be subject
to the terms of this Order, any subsequent revisions, and the orders of
the Authorized Officer thereunder.
b. Reinstatement or Renewal of Oil and Gas Leases. As a condition
to the granting of any discretionary reinstatement or renewal of any
existing lease that includes lands in the Designated Potash Area, the
BLM will impose stipulations identical to those specified in Section
6.a.
c. Potash Leases.
(1) All potash permits, licenses, and leases hereafter issued or
existing potash leases hereafter readjusted for Federal lands within
the Designated Potash Area, must be subject to a requirement, either to
be included in the lease, license, or permit or imposed as a
stipulation, that no mining or exploration operations may be conducted
that, in the opinion of the Authorized Officer, will constitute a
hazard to oil or gas production, or that will unreasonably interfere
with orderly development and production under any oil and gas lease
issued for the same lands.
(2) BLM will continue to include applicable due diligence
stipulations in all potash leases issued or readjusted after the date
of this Order.
(3) Before being allowed to participate in a competitive lease
sale, all bidders must certify in writing that they have an
identifiable, substantial, and genuine interest in developing the
potash resources and that they intend to develop the potash resources
in accordance with the applicable diligence stipulations.
(4) In addition, the Authorized Officer will include a lease
provision providing that potash mining operations will be subject to
the terms of this Order, any subsequent revisions, and the orders of
the Authorized Officer thereunder.
d. Delineation of Resource Areas. Each potash lessee must file
annually by March 1, with the Authorized Officer, data and a map(s) on
which has been delineated the following information with respect to the
Federal, state, and private potash leases which the lessee then holds;
and lands on which exploration activities have been conducted.
(1) Those areas where active mining operations are currently in
progress in one or more ore zones;
(2) Those areas where operations have been completed in one or more
ore zones;
(3) Those areas that are not presently being mined which are
considered to contain Measured Reserves in one or more ore zones;
(4) Those areas that are not presently being mined which are
considered to contain Indicated Resources in one or more ore zones;
(5) Those areas that are not presently being mined which are
considered to contain Inferred Resources in one or more ore zones;
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(6) Those areas that are considered to be Barren Areas;
(7) Those areas that are Unknown Areas; and
(8) Those areas that are planned to be mined as per a three-year
mine plan.
(9) The Authorized Officer will annually review the information
submitted under this requirement and make any revisions to the
boundaries of Measured Reserves, Indicated Resources, Inferred
Resources, Barren Areas, and Unknown Areas. Upon verification, the
Authorized Officer will commit the initial findings to a map(s) of
suitable scale and will thereafter revise that map(s) as necessary to
reflect the latest available information.
e. Oil and Gas Drilling.
(1) Drilling within the Designated Potash Area. It is the intent of
the Department of the Interior to administer oil and gas operations
throughout the Designated Potash Area in a manner which promotes safe,
orderly co-development of oil and gas and potash resources. It is the
policy of the Department of the Interior to deny approval of most
applications for permits to drill oil and gas wells from surface
locations within the Designated Potash Area. Three exceptions to this
policy will be permitted if the drilling will occur under the following
conditions from:
(a) A Drilling Island associated with a Development Area
established under this Order or a Drilling Island established under a
prior Order;
(b) A Barren Area and the Authorized Officer determines that such
operations will not adversely affect active or planned potash mining
operations in the immediate vicinity of the proposed drill-site; or
(c) A Drilling Island, not covered by (a) above, or single well
site established under this Order by the approval and in the sole
discretion of the Authorized Officer, provided that such site was
jointly recommended to the Authorized Officer by the oil and gas
lessee(s) and the nearest potash lessee(s).
(2) Development Areas.
(a) When processing an application for permit to drill (APD) an oil
or gas well in the Designated Potash Area that complies with regulatory
requirements, the Authorized Officer will determine whether to
establish a Development Area in connection with the application, and if
so, will determine the boundaries of the Development Area and the
location within the Development Area of one or more Drilling Islands
from which drilling will be permitted. The BLM may also designate a
Development Area outside of the APD process based on information in its
possession, and may modify the boundaries of a Development Area.
Existing wells may be included within the boundaries of a Development
Area. A Development Area may include Federal oil and gas leases and
other Federal and non-Federal lands.
(b) After designating or modifying a Development Area, the BLM will
issue a Notice to Lessees, consistent with its authorities under 43 CFR
subpart 3105 and part 3180, informing lessees that future drilling on
lands under an oil and gas lease within that Development Area will:
(i) Occur, under most circumstances, from a Barren Area or a
Drilling Island within the Development Area; and
(ii) Be managed under a unit or communitization agreement,
generally by a single operator, consistent with BLM regulations and
this Order. Unit and communitization agreements will be negotiated
among lessees. The BLM will consider whether a specific plan of
development is necessary or advisable for a particular Drilling Island.
(c) The Authorized Officer reserves the right to approve an
operator or successor operator of a Development Area and/or a Drilling
Island, if applicable, to ensure that the operator has the resources to
operate and extract the oil and gas resources consistent with the
requirements of this Order and all applicable laws and regulations, and
has provided financial assurance in the amount required by the
Authorized Officer.
(d) The Authorized Officer will determine the appropriate
designation of a Development Area in terms of location, shape, and
size. In most cases, a single Drilling Island will be established for
each Development Area. In establishing the location, shape, and size of
a Development Area and an associated Drilling Island, the Authorized
Officer will consider:
(i) The appropriate location, shape, and size of a Development Area
and associated Drilling Island to allow effective extraction of oil and
gas resources while managing the impact on potash resources;
(ii) The application of available oil and gas drilling and
production technology in the Permian Basin;
(iii) The applicable geology of the Designated Potash Area and
optimal locations to minimize loss of potash ore while considering co-
development of both resources;
(iv) Any long term exploration and/or mining plans provided by the
potash industry;
(v) Whether a Barren Area may be the most appropriate area for a
Drilling Island;
(vi) The requirements of this Order; and
(vii) Any other relevant factors.
(e) As the Authorized Officer establishes a Development Area, the
Authorized Officer will more strictly apply the factors listed in
Section 6.e.(2)(d), especially the appropriate application of the
available oil and gas drilling and production technology in the Permian
Basin, when closer to current traditional (non-solution) potash mining
operations. Greater flexibility in the application of the factors
listed in Section 6.e.(2)(d) will be applied further from current and
near-term traditional (non-solution) potash mining operations. No
Drilling Islands will be established within one mile of any area where
approved potash mining operations will be conducted within 3 years
consistent with the 3-year mine plan referenced above (Section 6.d.(8))
without the consent of the affected potash lessee(s).
(f) The Authorized Officer may establish a Development Area
associated with a well or wells drilled from a Barren Area as
appropriate and necessary.
(g) As part of the consideration for establishing Development Areas
and Drilling Islands, the BLM will consider input from the potash
lessees and the oil and gas lessees or mineral right owners who would
be potentially subject to a unitization agreement supporting the
Development Area, provided that the input is given timely.
(3) Buffer Zones. Buffer Zones of \1/4\ mile for oil wells and \1/
2\ mile for gas wells are hereby established. These Buffer Zones will
stay in effect until such time as revised distances are adopted by the
BLM Director or other BLM official, as delegated. However, the
Authorized Officer may adjust the Buffer Zones in an individual case,
when the facts and circumstances demonstrate that such adjustment would
enhance conservation and would not compromise safety. The Director will
base revised Buffer Zones on science, engineering, and new technology
and will consider comments and reports from the Joint Industry
Technical Committee and other interested parties in adopting any
revisions.
(4) Unitization and Communitization. To more properly conserve the
potash and oil and gas resources in the Designated Potash Area and to
adequately protect the rights of all parties in interest, including the
United States, it is the policy of the Department of the Interior that
all Federal oil and gas leases within a Development Area should be
unitized or subject to an
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approved communitization agreement unless there is a compelling reason
for another operating system. The Authorized Officer will make full use
of his/her authorities wherever necessary or advisable to require
unitization and/or communitization pursuant to the regulations in 43
CFR subparts 3105 and 3180. The Authorized Officer will use his/her
discretion to the fullest extent possible to assure that any
communitization agreement and any unit plan of operations hereafter
approved or prescribed within the Designated Potash Area will adhere to
the provisions of this Order. The Authorized Officer will work with
Federal lessees, and with the State of New Mexico as provided below, to
include non-Federal mineral rights owners in unit or communitization
agreements to the extent possible.
(5) Coordination with the State of New Mexico.
(a) If the effective operation of any Development Area requires
that the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division (NMOCD) revise the
state's mandatory well spacing requirements, the BLM will participate
as needed in such a process. The BLM may adopt the NMOCD spacing
requirements and require lessees to enter into communitization
agreements based on those requirements.
(b) The BLM will cooperate with the NMOCD in the implementation of
that agency's rules and regulations.
(c) In taking any action under Section 6.e. of this Order, the
Authorized Officer will take into consideration the applicable rules
and regulations of the NMOCD.
(6) Approvals of Exploration on Existing Potash Leases and Potash
Exploration Licenses.
(a) Exploration for potash on lands leased for potash is permitted
only with approval by the BLM, in consultation and coordination with
the potash lessee, of an exploration plan in accordance with 43 CFR
subpart 3592 and subject to the terms and conditions of the potash
lease.
(b) An oil and gas or potash operator may apply for an exploration
license to drill core holes necessary to define the absence or
existence and extent of mineable potash reserves in areas within the
Designated Potash Area. Exploration licenses allow the exploration of
known, unleased mineral deposits to obtain geologic, environmental, and
other pertinent data concerning the deposit. See 43 CFR subpart 3506.
These licenses can be obtained from the Carlsbad Field Office, BLM.
Costs for such exploration may be shared consistent with the provisions
of 43 CFR 3506.14, if applicable.
(c) Should an oil and gas or potash operator desire to attempt to
gather sufficient data for the BLM to establish a Barren Area in any
part of the Designated Potash Area not defined as Barren, provisions
and protocols are included in this Order for the operator to review
relevant data in the area to design a core acquisition program (see
Section 6.e.(8)(b) and (c) of this Order) and to obtain access to the
land to acquire core data (see Section 6.e.(6)(b)). The BLM will
develop and employ, as appropriate, data management protocols to
protect the appropriate use of the data in its records. The BLM will
use such newly acquired data to determine the resulting potash ore
quality and make any changes to potash reserves and resources maps
indicated by the new data.
(7) Notice to Affected Parties. An applicant for an Application for
Permit to Drill (APD), or a proponent of a plan of development for a
unit or communitization area or a proposal for a Development Area or a
Drilling Island, will provide notice of the application, plan, or
proposal to the potash lessees and potash operators in the Designated
Potash Area and to the owners of the oil and gas rights and surface
owners affected by such application, plan, or proposal. A list of
current potash lessees and potash operators will be available and
maintained by the Carlsbad Field Office, BLM. The BLM will assist to
the extent possible in identifying the oil and gas and surface owners
affected by the application, plan, or proposal. This notice should be
prior to or concurrent with the submission of the application, plan, or
proposal to the BLM. The BLM will not authorize any action prior to
this notice.
(8) Access to Maps and Surveys.
(a) Well records and survey plats that an oil and gas lessee is
required to file pursuant to applicable operating regulations (43 CFR
subpart 3160) will be available for inspection at the Carlsbad Field
Office, BLM, by any party holding a potash permit or lease on the lands
on which the well is situated insofar as such records are pertinent to
the mining and protection of potash deposits.
(b) Maps of mine workings and surface installations and records of
core analyses that a potash lessee is required to file pursuant to
applicable operating regulations (43 CFR 3590) will be available for
inspection at the Carlsbad Field Office, BLM. These records are
available for viewing by any party holding an oil and gas lease on the
same lands insofar as such records are pertinent to the development and
protection of oil and gas deposits.
(c) In order for an oil and gas or potash operator to establish and
design a core acquisition program for the purposes of proving a Barren
Area, those records of core analyses in the area of the planned program
that are necessary to design that program should be provided in a
timely fashion by the BLM to the operator of the planned program to the
extent allowed by law, subject to data management protocols as
referenced in Section 6.e.(6)(c), and consistent with 43 CFR part 2 and
Sections 3503.41-.43. The BLM will use all data available to it when
delineating Barren Areas.
(d) Maps of potash reserves and resources prepared under the
provisions of Section 6.d. will be available for inspection in the
Carlsbad Field Office, BLM. Digital copies of these maps will be
available by mail or at these offices by May 1 of each year. Maps of
established Development Areas will be updated as new Development Areas
are established. Maps of Development Areas will be provided in a timely
fashion by the BLM upon request.
Sec. 7 Regulatory and Administrative Matters.
a. This Order applies to the exercise of all existing leases in the
Designated Potash Area in conformity with lease stipulations and
Federal law.
b. Except to the extent otherwise provided by this Order, the
regulations contained in 43 CFR part 3100 and subparts 3160 and 3180
(governing the leasing and development of oil and gas) and 43 CFR part
3500 and subpart 3590 (governing the leasing and development of potash
deposits), remain applicable to the lands covered by this Order.
c. In implementing this Order, the BLM is authorized to exercise
its discretion through any and all appropriate means, including
rulemaking, notices to lessees, and orders of the Authorized Officer.
d. The BLM will obtain and use the best science available when
administering this Order consistent with Departmental Manual chapters
305 DM 2 and 305 DM 3. The BLM will comply with the requirements of
Secretary's Order 3305, Ensuring Scientific Integrity within the
Department of the Interior, dated, September 29, 2010. The BLM has
previously used Sandia National Laboratories to provide unbiased
technical assistance in administering the Designated Potash Area and
may continue to do so, if the BLM, consistent with all applicable laws,
so chooses.
e. The BLM will develop guidelines consistent with this Order for
establishing Development Areas and
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Drilling Islands. In developing such guidelines, the BLM may consider
comments and reports from the Joint Industry Technical Committee and
other interested parties.
f. The BLM will develop appropriate time-frame guidelines and
requirements, as appropriate, to enable timely actions pursuant to this
Order.
Sec. 8 The Designated Potash Area Legal Description.
New Mexico Principal Meridian
T. 22 S., R. 28 E.,
Secs. 25 and 36.
T. 23 S., R. 28 E.,
Sec. 1.
T. 19 S., R. 29 E.,
Secs. 1 and 2;
Secs 11 to 15, inclusive;
Secs. 22 to 27, inclusive;
Secs. 35 and 36.
T. 20 S., R. 29 E.,
Secs. 1 and 2;
Secs. 11 to 15, inclusive;
Secs. 22 to 27, inclusive;
Secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.
T. 21 S., R. 29 E.,
Secs. 1 to 5, inclusive;
Secs. 10 to 15, inclusive;
Secs. 22 to 27, inclusive;
Secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.
T. 22 S., R. 29 E.,
Secs. 1 to 5, inclusive;
Secs. 8 to 17, inclusive;
Secs. 19 to 36, inclusive.
T. 23 S., R. 29 E.,
Secs. 1 to 17, inclusive;
Secs. 21 to 28, inclusive;
Secs. 33 to 36, inclusive.
T. 24 S., R. 29 E.,
Secs. 1 to 4, inclusive.
T. 18 S., R. 30 E.,
Secs. 8 to 17, inclusive;
Secs. 20 to 29, inclusive;
Secs. 32 to 36, inclusive.
T. 19 S., R. 30 E.
T. 20 S., R. 30 E.
T. 21 S., R. 30 E.
T. 22 S., R. 30 E.
T. 23 S., R. 30 E.
T. 24 S., R. 30 E.,
Secs. 1 to 18, inclusive.
T. 19 S., R. 31 E.,
Secs. 7 and 18;
Secs. 31 to 36, inclusive.
T. 20 S., R. 31 E.
T. 21 S., R. 31 E.
T. 22 S., R. 31 E.
T. 23 S., R. 31 E.
T. 24 S., R. 31 E.,
Secs. 1 to 18, inclusive;
Secs. 35 and 36.
T. 25 S., R. 31 E.,
Secs. 1 and 2.
T. 19 S., R. 32 E.,
Secs. 25 to 28, inclusive;
Secs. 31 to 36, inclusive.
T. 20 S., R. 32 E.
T. 21 S., R. 32 E.
T. 22 S., R. 32 E.,
Secs. 1 to 12, inclusive.
T. 19 S., R. 33 E.,
Secs. 21 to 36, inclusive.
T. 20 S., R. 33 E.
T. 21 S., R. 33 E.
T. 22 S., R. 33 E.,
Secs. 1 to 12, inclusive.
T. 19 S., R. 34 E.,
Secs. 19 and 20;
Secs. 29 to 32, inclusive.
T. 20 S., R. 34 E.,
Secs. 3 to 10, inclusive;
Secs. 15 to 36, inclusive.
T. 21 S., R. 34 E.,
Secs. 5 to 8, inclusive;
Secs. 17 to 20, inclusive;
Secs. 29 to 32, inclusive.
T. 22 S., R. 34 E.,
Sec. 6.
The area described, including public and non-public lands,
aggregates 497,002.03 acres, more or less.
Sec. 9 Administrative Provisions. The Director, BLM, is authorized
to delegate responsibilities herein as is determined appropriate. This
Order will remain in effect until superseded, replaced, or incorporated
into the Departmental Manual.
Ken Salazar,
Secretary of the Interior.
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