[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5643-5644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2956]


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[NV-930-1430-00; Nev-059798, Nev-051745]


Public Land Order No. 7242; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Order Dated January 3, 1929, and Public Land Order No. 3512; Nevada

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a public land order and a 
Secretarial order insofar as they affect 247.16 acres of public lands 
withdrawn for use by the Bureau of Reclamation for the Colorado River 
Storage Project and the Robert B. Griffith Water Project. The lands are 
no longer needed for the purposes for which they were withdrawn and the 
revocation is needed to permit disposal of the lands through exchange. 
This action will open the lands to surface entry and mining subject to 
valid existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 10, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis J. Samuelson, BLM Nevada State 
Office, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, Nevada 89520, 702-785-6532.
    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 January 3, 1929, and Public Land 
Order No. 3512, which withdrew public lands for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Colorado River Storage Project and the Robert B. Griffith 
Project, respectively, are hereby revoked insofar as they affect the 
following described lands:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 23 S., R. 63 E.,
    Sec. 2, lots 13, 23, 27, and S\1/2\SW;
    Sec. 11, lots 2, 9, 10, 11, and 14;
    Sec. 14, lot 9 to 12, inclusive.

    The areas described aggregate 247.16 acres in Clark County.


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    2. At 9 a.m. on March 10, 1997, the lands 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 March 10, 1997, shall be considered 
as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall 
be considered in the order of filing.
    3. At 9 a.m. on March 10, 1997, the lands will be opened to 
location and entry under the United States mining laws, subject to 
valid existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law.
    Appropriation of any of the lands described in this order under the 
general mining laws prior to the date and time of restoration is 
unauthorized. Any such attempted appropriation, including attempted 
adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1988), shall vest no rights 
against the United States. Acts required to establish a location and to 
initiate a right of possession are governed by State law where not in 
conflict with Federal law. The Bureau of Land Management will not 
intervene in disputes between rival locators over possessory rights 
since Congress has provided for such determinations in local courts.

    Dated: January 23, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-2956 Filed 2-5-97; 8:45 am]
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