[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53932-53933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26394]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-54; GP6-0125; OR-19652 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7220; Revocation of Secretarial Order dated 
June 15, 1927; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety a Secretarial order which 
withdrew 11,360 acres of National Park and National Forest System lands 
for the Bureau of Land Management's Powersite Classification No. 184. 
The lands are no longer needed for the purpose for which they were 
withdrawn. This action will open approximately 90 acres to surface 
entry, which have been and will remain open to mining and mineral 
leasing. The remaining 11,270 acres are included in other overlapping 
withdrawals and will remain closed to surface entry, mining, and 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 1996.

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. The Secretarial Order dated June 15, 1927, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 184, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

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Willamette Meridian

Olympic National Park

T. 26 N., R. 6 W., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 4, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, every smallest legal 
subdivision and portion of which, when surveyed will be within \1/4\ 
of a mile of the Elwha River.
T. 27 N., R. 6 W., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 4, 5, 8, 9, 16, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28, 33, and 34, every 
smallest legal subdivision and portion of which, when surveyed will 
be within \1/4\ of a mile of the Elwha River.
T. 28 N., R. 6 W., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 32, and 33, every smallest 
legal subdivision and portion of which, when surveyed will be within 
\1/4\ of a mile of the Elwha River.
T. 26 N., R. 7 W., unsurveyed,
    Sec. 24, every smallest legal subdivision and portion of which, 
when surveyed will be within \1/4\ of a mile of the Elwha River.
T. 28 N., R. 7 W., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, and 13, every smallest legal subdivision 
and portion of which, when surveyed will be within \1/4\ of a mile 
of the Elwha River.
T. 29 N., R. 7 W.,
    Sec. 4, lot 3;
    Sec. 5, NE\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 9, W\1/2\;
    Sec. 16, unsurveyed NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 17, E\1/2\SE\1/4\ and unsurveyed SE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, unsurveyed SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 29, E\1/2\NW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, unsurveyed E\1/2\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 33, unsurveyed.
T. 30 N., R. 7 W.,
    Sec. 33, lot 10, and those portions of lots 6, 8, and 9 lying 
within the Olympic National Park and Olympic Wilderness boundaries.

Olympic National Forest

T. 30 N., R. 7 W.,
    Sec. 33, lot 3, and those portions of lots 6, 8, and 9 lying 
outside Olympic National Park and the Olympic Wilderness boundaries.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 11,360 acres in 
Clallam and Jefferson Counties.

    2. At 8:30 a.m., on November 15, 1996, those lands described as lot 
3 and those portions of lots 6, 8, and 9, sec. 33, T. 30 N., R. 7 W., 
lying outside the boundary of the Olympic National Park and Olympic 
Wilderness, will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law 
be made of National Forest System lands, 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 8:30 a.m., on November 15, 1996, shall be 
considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received 
thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    3. The lands described in Paragraph 1, except as provided in 
Paragraph 2, are included in the Olympic National Park and the Olympic 
Wilderness Area Withdrawals and will not be restored to operation of 
the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws.

    Dated: October 2, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-26394 Filed 10-15-96; 8:45 am]
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