[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 60116]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30078]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[OR-958-0777-54; GP6-0134; OR-19614 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7225; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
June 30, 1916; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety an Executive order which 
withdrew 94.17 acres of public lands for the Bureau of Land 
Management's Powersite Reserve No. 534. The lands are no longer needed 
for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. This action will open 80 
acres to surface entry. The lands have been and will remain open to 
mining and mineral leasing. The remaining 14.17-acre balance is 
included in another existing withdrawal and will remain closed to 
surface entry.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 26, 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 Executive Order dated June 30, 1916, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 534, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 33 N., R. 10 E.,
    Sec. 25, lot 1.
T. 33 N., R. 11 E.,
    Sec. 19, lot 4;
    Sec. 32, lot 2 and E\1/2\NW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 94.17 acres in Skagit County.

    2. At 8:30 a.m. on December 26, 1996, the land in the E\1/2\NW\1/4\ 
of sec. 32, T. 33 N., R. 11 E., 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 8:30 a.m., on December 26, 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 within the Skagit Wild and Scenic River withdrawal and 
remain closed to surface entry.

    Dated: November 4, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-30078 Filed 11-25-96; 8:45 am]
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