[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 57191-57192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27988]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

43 CFR Public Land Order 7170

[OR-943-1430-01; GP5-126; OR-50874, OR-51194]


Withdrawal of Public Lands To Protect the Floras Lake and Lost 
Lake Addition to the New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern; 
Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 182.38 acres of public lands from surface 
entry and mining until April 28, 2013, for the Bureau of Land 
Management to protect the Floras Lake and Lost Lake Addition to the New 
River Area of Critical Environmental Concern. The lands will be open to 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 14, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty McCarthy, BLM Oregon/Washington 
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.
    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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
lands are hereby withdrawn from location and entry under the United 
States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1988)), but not from leasing under 
the mineral leasing laws, to protect the Floras Lake and Lost Lake 
Addition to the existing New River Area of Critical Environment 
Concern:

Willamette Meridian

Floras Lake

T. 31 S., R. 15 W.,
    Sec. 7, lot 1;
    Sec. 8, lots 3, 4, 5, and 6.

    To include any accretion of land, the area described contains 
approximately 111.48 acres in Curry County.

Lost Lake

T. 29 S., R. 15 W.,
    Sec. 35, N\1/2\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 36, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\ and that portion of the NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ 
beginning at the southwest corner of the NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ of 
sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 15 W., and running thence north along the west 
line of the NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ of said sec. 36, a distance of 300 feet; 
thence east parallel to the north line of said sec. 36, a distance 
of 250 feet; thence south parallel to the west line of the NE\1/
4\NW\1/4\ of said sec. 36, a distance of 300 feet; thence west along 
the south boundary of the NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ of said sec. 36, a 
distance of 250 feet to the point of beginning;
    And Beginning at the southwest corner of the NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ of 
sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 15 W., proceeding thence east 634 feet; thence 
north 420 feet to Berg Road; thence westerly along said road 52 
feet, more or less to the southwest corner of property conveyed in 
Book 193, Page 489, Deed Records of Coos County, Oregon; thence 
north 242 feet, more or less, to the northwest corner of property 
conveyed in Book 193, Page 489, Deed Records of Coos County, Oregon; 
thence west 523 feet to the west line of the NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ of said 
section; thence south 662 feet to the southwest corner of the said 
NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ and the point of beginning, Saving and Excepting that 
part subject to the right of way of the said Berg Road.

    The area described contains 70.90 acres in Coos County.

    2. At 8:30 a.m. on November 14, 1995, the lands will be opened to 
application and offers under the mineral leasing laws and the 
Geothermal Steam Act.
    3. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    4. This withdrawal will expire April 28, 2013, unless, as a result 
of a review conducted before the expiration date pursuant to section 
204(f) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 
1714(f) (1988), the Secretary determines that the withdrawal shall be 
extended.

    Dated: October 27, 1995.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 95-27988 Filed 11-13-95; 8:45 am]
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