[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 15 (Thursday, January 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3519-3520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1650]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[OR-958-0777-54; GP6-0135; OR-19053, OR-19158, OR-19175]


Public Land Order No. 7230; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
January 22, 1912, and Secretarial Orders Dated March 29, 1932, and 
March 17, 1944; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in their entirety, one Executive order and 
two Secretarial orders which withdrew 17,557.20 acres of National 
Forest System lands for the Bureau of Land Management's Powersite 
Reserve No. 240, and Powersite Classification Nos. 263 and 348. The 
lands are no longer needed for the purposes for which they were 
withdrawn. The lands remain closed to surface entry, mining, and 
mineral leasing by other overlapping withdrawals.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 24, 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. The Executive Order dated January 22, 1912, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 240, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Wallowa National Forest

T. 4 N., R. 49 E.,
    Sec. 21, lot 2.

    The area described contains 33.20 acres in Wallowa County.

     2. The Secretarial Order dated March 29, 1932, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 263, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

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Willamette Meridian

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

T. 2 N., R. 48 E.,
    Sec. 2, lots 1, 2, and 4, and SW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 3, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 9, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, lots 3 and 4, and NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 16, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 3 N., R. 48 E.,
    Sec. 12, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/
4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 14, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 23, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 25, W\1/2\NW\1/4\ and NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 35, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, SW\1/
4\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 4 N., R. 48 E.,
    Sec. 24, lots 2 to 7, inclusive, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and S\1/2\SE\1/
4\ excluding Mineral Survey Nos. 507, 601, and 694;
    Sec. 25, NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SE\1/
4\ excluding Mineral Survey Nos. 601, 723, 738, 747A, and 806.
T. 3 N., R. 49 E.,
    Sec. 6, lots 1, 2, and 3, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/
4\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and N\1/
2\SE\1/4\ excluding Mineral Survey Nos. 746 and 750;
    Sec. 7, lots 1 and 4, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/
4\, and E\1/2\SW\1/4\.
T. 4 N., R. 49 E.,
    Sec. 30, lots 2, 3, and 4, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\ excluding Mineral 
Survey Nos. 723, 738, and 807;
    Sec. 31, lots 1, 2, and 3, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, and W\1/2\SE\1/4\ 
excluding Mineral Survey No. 730.
T. 5 S., R. 45 E., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 11 to 14, inclusive, and
    Secs. 23 to 28, inclusive, all lands within \1/4\ mile of North 
Fork Imnaha River below Middle Fork, and all lands within \1/4\ mile 
of South Fork below Cliff River.
T. 5 S., R. 46 E., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 19 to 29 inclusive, all lands within \1/4\ mile of Imnaha 
River and Forks.
T. 5 S., R. 47 E., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 19 to 27 inclusive, all lands within \1/4\ mile of Imnaha 
River.
T. 5 S., R. 48 E., unsurveyed,
    Secs. 19 to 22, inclusive, and
    Secs. 25 to 30, inclusive;
    Sec. 23, all, excluding 112 acres in HES No. 91;
    Sec. 24, all, excluding 78 acres in HES No. 222.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 16,884 acres in 
Wallowa County.

    3. The Secretarial Order dated March 17, 1944, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 348, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Whitman National Forest

T. 5 S., R. 47 E., unsurveyed,
    Sec. 25, all lands lying more than \1/4\ mile from Imnaha River.
T. 5 S., R. 48 E., unsurveyed,
    Sec. 31, N\1/2\N\1/2\.
    The areas described aggregate approximately 640 acres in Wallowa 
County.

    4. The lands described in paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 are included in 
the Eagle Cap and Hells Canyon Wilderness Areas, the Hells Canyon 
National Recreation Area, and the Imnaha Wild and Scenic River 
withdrawals and remain closed to such forms of disposition as may by 
law be made of National Forest System lands, including the mining and 
mineral leasing laws.
    Dated: December 6, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-1650 Filed 1-22-97; 8:45 am]
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