[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 1 (Thursday, January 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 104-105]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33347]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0012; OR-50483]


Public Land Order 7233; Withdrawal of National Forest System 
Lands for Administrative Sites and a Wild and Scenic River Corridor; 
Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 2,090 acres of National Forest System 
lands in

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the Rogue River National Forest from mining for a period of 20 years 
for the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, to protect the 
Rabbit Ears-Falcon Wildlife Area, the Rogue River Wild and Scenic 
Corridor, Union Creek Historic District, Abbott Creek and Mill Creek 
Recreation Sites, and Prospect Ranger Station Administrative Site. The 
lands have been and will remain open to such forms of disposition as 
may by law be made of National Forest System lands and to mineral 
leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Janaury 2, 1997.

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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described 
National Forest System lands are hereby withdrawn from location and 
entry under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1988)), but 
not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, to protect a wildlife 
area, a wild and scenic corridor, a historic district, two recreation 
sites, and a ranger station:

Willamette Meridian

Rogue River National Forest

Rabbit Ears-Falcon Wildlife Area

T. 29 S., R. 3 E.,
    sec. 26, W\1/2\SW\1/4\ and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    sec. 27, E\1/2\SW\1/4\ and SE\1/4\;
    sec. 34, NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, N\1/
2\SE\1/4\, and N\1/2\S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 35, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/
4\SW\1/4\, and W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.

Rogue River Wild and Scenic Corridor

T. 30 S., R. 3 E.,
    sec. 1, E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 12, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    sec. 13, E\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    sec. 23, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\ and W\1/2\W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 34, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 35, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and NW\1/
4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 31 S., R. 3 E.,
    sec. 17, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    sec. 19, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 29 S., R. 4 E.,
    sec. 10, W\1/2\E\1/2\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\S\1/2\SW\1/4\, and E\1/
2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 15, N\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    sec. 21, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    sec. 29, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    sec. 32, E\1/2\NW\1/4\.
T. 29 S., R. 5 E.,
    sec. 4, S\1/2\NE\1/4\.

Union Creek Historic District

T. 31 S, R. 3 E.,
    sec. 2, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    sec. 3, E\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, and NW\1/
4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 9, N\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 10, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, and SE\1/
4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

Abbott Creek Recreation Site

T. 31 S., R. 3 E.,
    sec. 7, E\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\ and W\1/2\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 18, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

Mill Creek Recreation Site

T. 32 S., R. 3 E.,
    sec. 9, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 16, N\1/2\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\.

Prospect Ranger Station Administrative Site

T. 32 S., R. 3 E.,
    sec. 29, W\1/2\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 2,090 acres in Jackson and Douglas 
Counties.
    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the 
National Forest System lands under lease, license, or permit, or 
governing the disposal of their mineral or vegetative resources other 
than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 20 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review conducted before the 
expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) (1988), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.


    Dated: December 23, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-33347 Filed 12-31-96; 8:45 am]
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