[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 96 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24805-24806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12245]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
(CA-060-1430-01; CACA 7236)

Public Land Order No. 7194; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Order Dated October 19, 1920; California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a Secretarial Order dated October 
19, 1920, insofar as it affects 160 acres of public land withdrawn for 
the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma Project. The land is no longer needed 
for the purpose for which it was withdrawn. The revocation is needed to 
permit completion of a land exchange as part of the Bureau of Land 
Management's land tenure adjustment program in Riverside and San Diego 
Counties. This action will open the land to surface entry and mining 
unless closed by overlapping withdrawals or temporary segregations of 
record. The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 17, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duane Marti, BLM California State 
Office (CA-931.4), 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California 95825, 916-
979-2858.
    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. The Secretarial Order dated October 19, 1920, which withdrew 
public lands for the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma Reclamation Project, 
is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

San Bernardino Meridian

T. 6 S., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 20, W\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The area described contains 160 acres in Riverside County.

    2. At 10 a.m. on June 17, 1996, the land will be opened to the 
operation of the public land laws generally, subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of 
record, and the requirements of applicable law. All valid applications 
received at or prior to 10 a.m. on June 17, 1996, shall be considered 
as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall 
be considered in the order of filing.
    3. At 10 a.m. on June 17, 1996, the land will be opened to location 
and entry under the United States mining laws, subject to valid 
existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law. 
Appropriation of any of the land described in this order under the 
general mining laws prior to the date and time of restoration is 
unauthorized. Any such attempted appropriation, including attempted 
adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1988), shall vest no rights 
against the United States. Acts required to establish a location and to 
initiate a right of possession are governed by State law where not in 
conflict with Federal law. The Bureau of Land Management will not 
intervene in disputes between rival locators over possessory rights 
since Congress has provided for such determination in local courts.

    Dated: April 30, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-12245 Filed 5-15-96; 8:45 am]
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