[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 223 (Monday, November 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58700-58701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29446]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
(CA-059-1430-01; CACA 18099)


Public Land Order No. 7224; Revocation of Executive Order dated 
April 11, 1918; California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive order in its entirety as to 
the remaining 4.25 acres of lands withdrawn for Power Site Reserve No. 
683. The lands are no longer needed for this purpose, and the 
revocation is necessary to permit completion of a pending land exchange 
under Section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976. This order will open the lands to surface entry unless closed by 
overlapping

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withdrawals or temporary segregations of record. The lands have been 
and remain open to mineral leasing and to mining under the provisions 
of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955. The Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission has concurred with this action.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 18, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duane Marti, BLM California State 
Office (CA-931.4), 2135 Butano Drive, Sacramento, California 95825, 
916-979-2858.
    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 dated April 11, 1918, which withdrew public 
lands for Power Site Reserve No. 683, is hereby revoked in its entirety 
as to the following described lands:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 45 N., R. 7 W.,
    SEC. 11, lots 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 11;
    SEC. 12, lot 3.

    The areas described aggregate 4.25 acres in Siskiyou County.

    2. At 10 a.m. on December 18, 1996, the lands 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 10 a.m. on December 18, 1996, shall be 
considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received 
thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    3. The lands have been open to mining under the provisions of the 
Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1988) and 
these provisions are no longer required. The lands have been and will 
remain open to mineral leasing.
    4. The State of California has waived its right of selection in 
accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, 
as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1988).

    Dated: November 4, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-29446 Filed 11-15-96; 8:45 am]
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