[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 96 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24806-24807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12322]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[CO-950-1430-01; COC-54878]


Public Land Order No. 7195; Withdrawal of National Forest System 
Land for the Hoosier Ridge Research Natural Area; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws approximately 684 acres of National 
Forest System land from mining for 50 years to protect the unique 
alpine ecosystem and associated plant life within the Hoosier Ridge 
Research Natural Area (RNA), which was designated on December 12, 1995. 
This land has been and remains open to such forms of disposition as may 
by law be made of National Forest System land and to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 16, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076, 303-239-
3706.
    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 
National Forest System land is hereby withdrawn from location and entry 
under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1988)), for the 
Forest Service to protect the alpine ecosystem in the Hoosier Ridge 
RNA.

Sixth Principal Meridian

Arapaho and Pike National Forests

T. 8 S., R. 77 W.,

    The Hoosier Ridge RNA is an irregular-shaped area within secs. 
7, 8, 17, and 18 of T. 8 S., R. 77 W., and contains approximately 
684 acres and the following metes and bounds description reflects 
the intent of the 1991 Establishment Record from a ``quasi-legal'' 
interpretation of said record. The area is described as follows:
    Beginning at the cor. of secs. 7, 12, 13, and 18, in T. 8 S., 
Rgs. 77 and 78 W., 6th P.M., monumented with a granite stone, mkd. 
as described in the official record of the 1882 survey of the West 
Boundary of T. 8 S., R. 77 W., by Frank Koons.
    From this cor., the centerline of State Highway 9 crossing 
Hoosier Pass, bears Westerly for approximately 3200 ft. distance.
    Thence approximately N. 20 deg. E., 719 ft. +-, to a steel post 
located just above the Forest edge.
    Thence approximately N. 81 deg. E., 4566 ft. +-, to a steel pipe 
and cairn located on a rocky ridge.
    Thence approximately S. 56 deg. E., 2454 ft. +-, to a cairn 
located on a high point on the Continental Divide (approx. County 
line).
    Thence approximately N. 78 deg. E., 1638 ft. +-, to the highest 
point located on an E-W portion of the Continental Divide (at the 
12953 ft. level mkd. on the Alma 7.5' USGS quadrangle 1970).
    Thence approximately S. 4 deg. E., 3234 ft. +-, to ``United 
States Locating Monument No. 541, Mineral Survey District No. 3.'' 
monument & cairn, as described in the Field Notes of Mineral Survey 
No. 541.
    Thence approximately S. 82 deg. W., 2843 ft. +-, to a steel pipe 
and cairn located on a broad grassy ridge separating Beaver Creek 
from Platte River drainages.
    Thence approximately N. 79 deg. W., 4459 ft. +-, to a rocky 
point on a ridge.
    Thence approximately N. 42 deg. W., 1716 ft. +-, to a cairn 
located on the Continental Divide ridge.
    Thence approximately N. 9 deg. W., 1168 ft. +-, to the cor. of 
secs. 7, 12, 13, and 18, and place of beginning.

    This RNA contains approximately 684 acres of which about half is 
within the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, 
managed by the White River National Forest; and about half within the 
South Park Ranger District in the Pike and San Isabel National Forest, 
in Summit and Park Counties, Colorado. Maps of the area are available 
at the address shown above.
    2. The withdrawal make by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of National 
Forest System lands under lease, license, or permit, or governing the 
disposal of their mineral or vegetative resources other than under the 
mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 50 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review

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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: April 30, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-12322 Filed 5-15-96; 8:45 am]
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