[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 36392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17043]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CO-930-1430-01; COC-28673]


Public Land Order No. 7397; Opening of Land Under Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order opens, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act, 90 acres of National Forest System land 
withdrawn by a Geological Survey Order which established the Bureau of 
Land Management's Power Site Classification No. 441. This action will 
permit consummation of a pending Forest Service land exchange and 
retain the waterpower rights to the United States. The land has been 
and will continue to be open to mineral leasing and, under the 
provisions of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, to 
mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 5, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
of the Interior by the act of June 20, 1920, Section 24, as amended,16 
U.S.C. 818 (1994), and pursuant to the determination of the Federal 
Regulatory Commission in DVCO-550-000, it is ordered as follows:
    1. At 9 a.m. on August 5, 1999, the following described National 
Forest System land withdrawn by Geological Survey Order dated January 
23, 1958, which established Power Site Classification No. 441, will be 
opened to disposal subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the 
Federal Power Act as specified by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission determination DVCO-550-000, and subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of 
record, and the requirements of applicable law:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

Rio Grande National Forest

T. 40 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 19, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\ NW\1/
4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\ and 
W\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The area described contains approximately 90 acres in Mineral 
County.

    Dated: June 8, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-17043 Filed 7-2-99; 8:45 am]
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