[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withdrawn.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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