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[FR Doc No: 94-18808]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
43 CFR Public Land Order 7073

[MT-930-4210-06; MTM 41943]

 

Partial Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated September 4, 1908; 
Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a Secretarial order insofar as it 
affects a .487 acre parcel of National Forest System land withdrawn for 
use as the Beardance Administrative Site. The land is no longer needed 
for the purpose for which it was withdrawn. The revocation is needed to 
accommodate a land interchange (disposal through exchange) under the 
Small Tracts Act of January 12, 1983, 16 U.S.C. 521(c)-521(i) (1988). 
This action will open the land 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. The land has been and 
remains open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 2, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949.
    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. Secretarial Order dated September 4, 1908, which withdrew 
National Forest System land for the Beardance Administrative Site, is 
hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

Flathead National Forest

T. 25 N., R. 19 W.,
    Sec. 5, portion of lot 3.
    The area described contains .487 acre in Lake County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on September 2, 1994, the land shall 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. Appropriation of any 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 determinations in local courts.

    Dated: July 18, 1994.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 94-18808 Filed 8-2-94; 8:45 am]
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