[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 144 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 38783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18950]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 022671]


Public Land Order No. 7207; Revocation of Bureau Order Dated 
March 25, 1957; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety a Bureau order insofar as 
it affects 24,320 acres of National Forest System lands withdrawn for 
the proposed Bureau of Reclamation's Spruce Park Reservoir of the 
Flathead River Project. The lands are no longer needed for the purpose 
for which they were withdrawn. All the lands will continue to be 
withdrawn as part of the Great Bear Wilderness Area and a portion of 
the lands will continue to be withdrawn for the Flathead Wild River 
Corridor. This action is for record-clearing purposes only.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 25, 1996.

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. The Bureau Order dated March 25, 1957, which withdrew lands for 
the Spruce Park Reservoir in Flathead County, is hereby revoked in its 
entirety:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 27 N., R. 14 W.,
    Secs. 3 to 6, inclusive, secs. 9 and 10.
T. 28 N., R. 14 W.,
    Secs. 30 to 33, inclusive.
T. 27 N., R. 15 W.,
    Sec. 2, secs. 4 to 9, inclusive, and sec. 16.
T. 28 N., R. 15 W.,
    Secs. 18, 19, and 20, and secs. 25 to 36, inclusive.
T. 28 N., R. 16 W.,
    Secs. 13, 24, 25, 35, and 36.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 24,320 acres in 
Flathead County.

    2. These lands will continue to be withdrawn as part of the Great 
Bear Wilderness Area pursuant to the Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 
1131 (1988)) and Public Law 95-547 (16 U.S.C. 1132 (1988)) and as part 
of the Flathead Wild River Corridor pursuant to Public Law 94-486 (16 
U.S.C. 1274 (1988)), and will continue to be subject to the terms and 
conditions of any other withdrawal or segregation of record.

    Dated: July 15, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-18950 Filed 7-24-96; 8:45 am]
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