[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2260-2261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-852]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0124; OR-19043, OR-19159]
Public Land Order No. 7310; Revocation of Executive Order Dated
July 2, 1910, and Secretarial Order Dated June 13, 1933; Oregon
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This order revokes in their entirety an Executive order and a
Secretarial order which withdrew 520 acres of public lands for the
Bureau of Land Management's Powersite Reserve No. 118 and Powersite
Classification No. 274. The lands are no longer needed for the purposes
for which they were withdrawn. This action will open 40 acres to
surface entry. The remaining 480 acres are within an overlapping
withdrawal and will remain closed to surface entry. All of the lands
have been and will remain open to mining and mineral leasing.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty McCarthy, BLM Oregon/Washington
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.
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 (1994), it is ordered as follows:
1. The Executive Order dated July 2, 1910, which established
Powersite Reserve No. 118, is hereby revoked in its entirety:
Willamette Meridian
T. 1 S., R. 10 E.,
Sec. 21, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.
The area described contains 40 acres in Hood River County.
2. The Secretarial Order dated June 13, 1933, which established
Powersite Classification No. 274, is hereby revoked in its entirety:
Willamette Meridian
T. 1 S., R. 16 E.,
Sec. 4, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 8, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
Sec. 20, E\1/2\NE\1/4\;
Sec. 29, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 30, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 1 N., R. 15 E.,
Sec. 14, E\1/2\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 24, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 26, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 1 N., R. 16 E.,
Sec. 32, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.
The areas described aggregate 480 acres in Sherman and Wasco
Counties.
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3. The lands described in paragraph 2 are included in the Bureau of
Land Management's withdrawal for the Deschutes Wild and Scenic River,
and will remain closed to operation of the public land laws. The lands
have been and continue to be open to location and entry under the
mining laws, and to applications and offers under the mineral leasing
laws.
4. At 8:30 a.m. on April 14, 1998, the lands described in paragraph
1 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 8:30
a.m., on April 14, 1998, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order
of filing.
5. The State of Oregon has a preference right, as to the lands
described in paragraph 1, for public highway right-of-way or material
sites for a period of 90 days from the date of publication of this
order, and any location, entry, selection, or subsequent patent shall
be subject to any rights granted the State as provided by the Act of
June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1994).
Dated: December 24, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-852 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]
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