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[FR Doc No: 94-19042]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
43 CFR Public Land Order 7074

[MT-930-4210-06; MTM 072057]

 

Partial Revocation of Public Land Order No. 4484, as Corrected by 
Public Land Order No. 4535; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a public land order insofar as it 
affects 79.82 acres of National Forest System land withdrawn by the 
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the Libby Dam Project 
in the Kootenai National Forest. The land is no longer needed for the 
purpose for which it was withdrawn. This action will permit the Forest 
Service to dispose of the land through exchange. This action will open 
the land to mining. The land has been and remains open to surface entry 
and mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 6, 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. Public Land Order No. 4484, as corrected by Public Land Order 
No. 4535, which withdrew National Forest System land for the Department 
of the Army, Corps of Engineers' Libby Dam Project, is hereby revoked 
insofar as it affects the following described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

Kootenai National Forest

T. 30 N., R. 26 W.,
    Sec. 8, lot 6 and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 79.82 acres in Lincoln County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on September 6, 1994, the land described above 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 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. 94-19042 Filed 8-3-94; 8:45 am]
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