[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 173 (Thursday, September 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 46820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22582]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-055-1430-01; AZA 28642]


Public Land Order No. 7212; Withdrawal of Public Lands for the 
Gila River Cultural Area of Critical Environmental Concern; Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 1,720 acres of public lands from surface 
entry and mining for a period of 50 years for the Bureau of Land 
Management to protect the archaeological resources within the Gila 
River Cultural Area of Critical Environmental Concern. The lands have 
been and will remain open to mineral leasing. An additional 1,900 acres 
of non-Federal lands, if acquired by the United States, would also be 
withdrawn by this order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 5, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Debbie DeBock, BLM Yuma Resource Area, 
3150 Winsor Avenue, Yuma, Arizona 85365, 520-726-6300.
    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lands are hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2(1988)), but not from leasing under the mineral leasing 
laws, to protect the Bureau of Land Management's Gila River Cultural 
Area of Critical Environmental Concern:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

Public Lands

T. 6 S., R. 11 W.,
    Sec. 1, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 3, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 4, S\1/2\;
    Sec. 9, N\1/2\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, NE\1/4\, and N\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, N\1/4\N\1/4\, N\1/2\S\1/2\N\1/2\, S\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
and N\1/2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 1,720 acres in Yuma County.

    2. The following described non-Federal lands are located within the 
boundary of the Gila River Cultural Area of Critical Environmental 
Concern. In the event these lands return to public ownership, they 
would be subject to the terms and conditions of this withdrawal as 
described in Paragraph 1:

Non-Federal Lands

T. 6 S., R. 11 W.,
    Sec. 2, S\1/2\;
    Sec. 3, SW\1/4\, and N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 9, W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 11, S\1/2\S\1/2\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and S\1/
2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 15, N\1/2\;
    Sec. 16, N\1/2\.

    The areas described aggregate 1,900 acres in Yuma County.

    3. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the 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 50 years from the effective date of 
this order 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: August 27, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-22582 Filed 9-4-96; 8:45 am]
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