[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 5244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2667]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[OR-958-0777-63; GP6-0215; OR-19604 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7239; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
February 6, 1915; 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 38.90 acres of public lands for the Bureau of Land 
Management's Powersite Reserve No. 479. The lands are no longer needed 
for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. Of the lands being 
revoked, 25 acres will remain closed to surface entry and mining due to 
another existing withdrawal. These lands have been and will remain open 
to mineral leasing. The remaining 13.90-acres have been conveyed out of 
Federal ownership with a reservation for coal, and will not be restored 
to the operation of the public land laws, including the mining laws.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 4, 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 February 6, 1915, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 479, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 12 N., R. 5 E.,
    Sec. 32, lots 8 and 9.

    The areas described aggregate 38.90 acres in Lewis County.

    2. The following described land has been conveyed out of Federal 
ownership, with a reservation of coal to the United States, and will 
not be restored to the operation of the public land laws, including the 
mining laws. The land has been and continues to be open to applications 
and offers under the mineral leasing laws for coal.

Willamette Meridian

T. 12 N., R. 5 E.,
    Sec. 32, lot 8.

    The area described contains 13.90 acres in Lewis County.

    3. The following described land is included in Power Project No. 
2016 and remains withdrawn from operation of the public land laws, 
including the mining laws. The land has been and continues to be open 
to applications and offers under the mineral leasing laws:

Willamette Meridian

T. 12 N., R. 5 E.,
    Sec. 32, lot 9.

    The area described contains 25 acres in Lewis County.

    Signed: January 23, 1997
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-2667 Filed 2-3-97; 8:45 am]
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