[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 29, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 44764-44765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-21370]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
43 CFR Public Land Order 7158

[WY-930-1430-01; WYW-84553-03]


Modification of Executive Order No. 5327, Dated April 15, 1930; 
Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.


ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order modifies Executive Order No. 5327, in part, as to 
all public lands withdrawn as oil shale lands in Wyoming. This action 
will restore the public lands containing oil shale deposits to the 
operation of the public land laws as to conveyances pursuant to the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act, 43 U.S.C. 1701 (1988), and the 
Recreation and Public Purposes Act, 43 U.S.C. 869 (1988); and will 
restore the deposits of oil shale and the public lands containing such 
deposits to the operation of the public land laws as to exchanges.


EFFECTIVE DATE: September 28, 1995.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tamara Gertsch, BLM Wyoming State 
Office, P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, 307-775-6115.

    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. Executive Order No. 5327 of April 15, 1930, as amended, 
withdrawing oil shale deposits and lands containing such deposits for 
classification, is hereby modified to open the public lands containing 
oil shale deposits to the operation of the public land laws as to 
conveyances pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, 43 
U.S.C. 1701 (1988), and the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, 43 
U.S.C. 869 (1988); and will open the deposits of oil shale and the 
public lands containing such deposits to the operation of the public 
land laws as to exchanges, insofar as it affects public lands in 
Wyoming.

    2. At 9:00 a.m. on September 28, 1995, all public lands containing 
oil shale deposits in Wyoming currently withdrawn by Executive Order 
No. 5327, shall be open to the operation of the public land laws as to 
conveyances pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and 

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Management Act, 43 U.S.C. 1701 (1988), and the Recreation and Public 
Purposes Act, 43 U.S.C. 869 (1988); and the deposits of oil shale and 
the public lands containing such deposits shall be open to operation of 
the public land laws as to exchanges, subject to valid existing rights, 
the provisions of existing withdrawals, and the requirements of 
applicable law. All valid applications received at or prior to 9 a.m. 
on September 28, 1995, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
the that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the 
order of filing.

    Dated: August 17, 1995.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 95-21370 Filed 8-28-95; 8:45 am]
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