[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 2177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-919]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 40735]


Public Land Order No. 7235; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Order Dated August 18, 1902; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial order insofar as it affects 
80 acres of public land withdrawn for the Bureau of Reclamation's Milk 
River Reclamation Project. The land is no longer needed for this 
purpose and the revocation is needed to permit disposal of the land 
through direct sale. This action will open the land to surface entry 
subject to temporary segregations of record. The land has been and will 
remain open to mining and mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 14, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949.
    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 August 18, 1902, which withdrew 
public lands for the Bureau of Land Reclamation's Milk River 
Reclamation Project, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the 
following described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 30 N., R. 29 E.,
    Sec. 11, S\1/2\SE\1/4\

    The area described contains 80 acres in Phillips County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on February 14, 1997, the land 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 9 a.m. on February 14, 1997, shall be 
considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received 
thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.

    Dated: January 3, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-919 Filed 1-14-97; 8:45 am]
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