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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
43 CFR Public Land Order 7056

[AK-932-4210-06; AA-16807]

 

Partial Revocation of Executive Order No. 4257 Dated June 27, 
1925; Alaska

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive Order insofar as it affects 
approximately 54.47 acres of National Forest System land and 8.91 acres 
of public land withdrawn for use by the Coast Guard, Department of 
Transportation, for the Woronkofski Point Lighthouse. The land is no 
longer needed for the purpose for which it was withdrawn. This action 
will also open the land within the Forest to such forms of disposition 
as may by law be made of National Forest System land. The land has been 
and will continue to be subject to the Tongass National Forest 
reservation. Upon revocation, the public land will be subject to the 
terms and conditions of Public Land Order No. 5180, as amended, and any 
other withdrawal of record.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue A. Wolf, BLM Alaska State Office, 
222 W. 7th Avenue, No. 13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599, 907-271-5477.
    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), and by section 17(d)(1) of the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. 1616(d)(1) (1988), it is ordered as 
follows:
    1. Executive Order No. 4257 dated June 27, 1925, which withdrew 
National Forest System land and public land for lighthouse purposes, is 
hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

Copper River Meridian

Tongass National Forest

    A parcel of land located within secs. 5 and 6 of T. 63 S., R. 83 
E., described as U.S. Survey No. 1712, excluding the following parcel:

    Beginning at a point which is S. 87 deg.21'00.6'' E., 309.65 
feet from U.S.L.M. No. 1712, at approximate latitude 56 deg.26'00'' 
N., longitude 132 deg.30'30'' W;

    Thence S. 23 deg.20'04'' W., 219.26 feet;
    Thence N. 68 deg.00'42.2'' W., 163.49 feet;
    Thence N. 58 deg.17'00'' W., 69.30 feet;
    Thence N. 25 deg.03'00'' W., 56.10 feet;
    Thence N. 20 deg.08'00'' W., 42.24 feet;
    Thence N. 39 deg.08'00'' E., 50.16 feet;
    Thence S. 79 deg.08'00'' E., 257.40 feet;
    Thence N. 66 deg.00'00'' E., 56.10 feet to the point of 
beginning, containing approximately 1 acre.

    The area described, less the excluded parcel, contains 
approximately 54.47 acres of National Forest System land and 8.91 acres 
of public land, for a total of approximately 63.38 acres.
    2. At 10 a.m. on July 6, 1994, the National Forest System land 
described above will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by 
law be made of National Forest System land, including 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.
    At 10 a.m. on July 6, 1994, the public land described above will be 
opened to location and entry under the United States mining laws for 
metalliferous minerals, pursuant to the term of 30 U.S.C. 49(a) (1988), 
subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing 
withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the requirements of 
applicable laws. The Bureau of Land Management will not intervene in 
disputes between rival locators over possessory rights since Congress 
has provided for such determinations in local courts.

    Dated: May 17, 1994.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 94-13580 Filed 6-3-94; 8:45 am]
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