[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53752-53753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26228]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY-980-1320-01; WYW-84553-04]


Public Land Order No. 7219; Partial Revocation of the Executive 
Order of July 6, 1910; Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive order insofar as it 
affects 18,846.72 acres of public land withdrawn for the protection of 
coal reserves near Rock Springs, Wyoming. This action, taken in 
conjunction with termination of Oil Shale Classification Order No. 1, 
will result in opening the land to the public land laws and to 
nonmetalliferous location under the 1872 Mining Law. The withdrawal is 
no longer needed for the protection of coal reserves and the 
Environmental Impact Statement completed in March 1996, for the 
proposed Green River Resource

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Management Plan, calls for the revocation of the coal land withdrawal. 
The revocation is needed to complete the opening of the land in 
response to a petition from a potential mining claimant. The entire 
18,846.72 acres has been and will remain open to the mineral leasing 
laws.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 14, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Paugh, BLM Wyoming State Office, 
P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, 307-775-6306.
    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 Executive Order of July 6, 1910, which withdrew public land 
for coal reserve protection, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects 
the following described land:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 13 N., R. 112 W.

    The area described contains 18,846.72 acres in Sweetwater and 
Uinta Counties, Wyoming.

    2. At 9 a.m. on November 14, 1996, the land described in paragraph 
1 will be opened to the operation of the public land laws generally, 
subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing 
withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the requirements of 
applicable law. All valid applications received at or prior to 9 a.m. 
on November 14, 1996, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing.
    3. At 9 a.m. on November 14, 1996, the land described in paragraph 
1 will be opened to nonmetalliferous location and entry under the 
United States mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law. Appropriation of any of the land 
described in this order under the general mining laws prior to the date 
and time of restoration is unauthorized. Any such attempted 
appropriation, including attempted adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 
38 (1988), shall vest no rights against the United States. Acts 
required to establish a location and to initiate a right of possession 
are governed by State law where not in conflict with Federal law. The 
Bureau of Land Management will not intervene in disputes between rival 
locators over possessory rights since Congress has provided for such 
determination in local courts.

    Dated: October 2, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-26228 Filed 10-11-96; 8:45 am]
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