[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 223 (Monday, November 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 58701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29445]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[OR-958-0777-54; GP6-0160; OR-19639 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7222; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
June 22, 1925; 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 49.20 acres of National Forest System land for the Bureau of 
Land Management's Powersite Classification No. 109. The land is no 
longer needed for the purpose for which it was withdrawn. This action 
will open 34.20 acres to surface entry. The 15 acre balance remains 
closed to surface entry and mining by another overlapping withdrawal. 
The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 18, 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 22, 1925, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 109, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Colville National Forest

T. 38 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 19, lot 6;
    Sec. 20, lot 2.

    The area described contains 49.20 acres in Pend Oreille County.

    2. The land described as lot 6 of sec. 19 and that portion of lot 2 
of sec. 20 lying within the boundary of Power Project No. 2042, remain 
closed to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National 
Forest System land, including the mining laws.
    3. At 8:30 a.m. on December 18, 1996, the land described in 
paragraph 1, except as provided in paragraph 2, will be open to such 
forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System 
land, 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 December 18, 1996, shall be considered as simultaneously filed 
at that time.
    4. The land described in paragraph 1, except as provided in 
paragraph 2, has been and continues to be open to location and entry 
under the mining laws, and to applications and offers under the mineral 
leasing laws.

    Dated: November 4, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-29445 Filed 11-15-96; 8:45 am]
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