[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 131 (Monday, July 11, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-16682]


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[Federal Register: July 11, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

43 CFR Public Land Order 7069

(CA-940-5440-10-ZBAF; CACA 30534)

 

Withdrawal of Public Land in Aid of the State of California To 
Study a Site for the Proposed Ward Valley Low-Level Radioactive Waste 
Facility, San Bernardino County, CA

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 1,000 acres of public land from 
agricultural entry and mining for a period of 3 years for the Bureau of 
Land Management to allow the State of California sufficient time to 
fully study its proposal to site a low-level radioactive waste facility 
on the land. The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 11, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Douglas Romoli, BLM California Desert 
District Office, 6221 Box Springs Blvd., Riverside, California 92507, 
(909) 697-5237.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by Section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 
43 U.S.C. 1714 (1988), it is ordered as follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
land is hereby withdrawn from settlement or entry under the 
agricultural land laws and location under the United States mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1988)), but not from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws, to protect the land while the State of California 
conducts a study of the area to determine the feasibility of locating 
the proposed Ward Valley Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility at the 
site, and for other purposes:

San Bernardino Meridian

T. 9 N., R. 19 E.,
    Sec. 26, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 27, S\1/2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 34;
    Sec. 35, W\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The area described contains 1,000 acres in San Bernardino 
County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the land 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 3 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review conducted before the 
expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) (1988), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: July 1, 1994.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 94-16682 Filed 7-8-94; 8:45 am]
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