[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 9446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5092]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CA-360-1430-01; CACA 7618]


Public Land Order No. 7248; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
April 20, 1922; California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial Order dated April 20, 1922, 
in its entirety as to the remaining 489.56 acres of lands withdrawn for 
the Bureau of Land Management's Power Site Classification No. 29. The 
lands are no longer needed for this purpose, and the revocation is 
necessary to facilitate a pending land exchange under Section 206 of 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Of the 489.56 acres 
being revoked, 329.56 acres are temporarily closed to surface entry and 
mining by a pending land exchange. These lands have been and will 
continue to be open to mineral leasing. The remaining 160 acres were 
conveyed out of public ownership in 1926. Since they were not conveyed 
subject to Section 24 of the Federal Power Act, the revocation insofar 
as it affects the 160 acres is a record clearing action only.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 3, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathy Gary, BLM California State 
Office (CA-931.5), 2135 Butano Drive, Sacramento, California 95825; 
916-979-2858.
    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), is it ordered as follows:
    1. The Secretarial Order dated April 20, 1922, which established 
Power Site Classification No. 29, is hereby revoked in its entirety as 
to the following described lands:

Mount Diablo Meridian

    (a) Pending Exchange Lands.
T. 31 N., R. 8 W.,
    Sec. 4, lot 13 (originally described as SW\1/4\SW\1/4\);
    Sec. 8, lots 1 and 4, and NW\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 32 N., R. 8 W.,
    Sec. 30, lots 9, 10, 11, 16, and 17 (originally described as 
SE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\).
    (b) Record Clearing Land.
T. 32 N., R. 8 W.,
    Sec. 32, NW\1/4\.
    The areas described aggregate 489.56 acres in Trinity county.

    2. At 10 a.m. on June 3, 1997 the lands described in paragraph 1(a) 
will be available for exchange under Section 206 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1716 (1988).
    3. The land described in paragraph 1(b) was conveyed out of public 
ownership in 1926. Therefore, the revocation insofar as it affects that 
land is a record clearing action only.
    4. The lands described in paragraph 1(a) have been open to mining 
under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 
1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1988). However, since this act applies only to 
lands withdrawn for power purposes, the provisions of the act are no 
longer applicable. These lands have been and continue to be open to 
mineral leasing.
    5. The State of California, with respect to the lands described in 
paragraph 1(a), has a preference right for public highway rights-of-
ways or material sites for a period of 90 days from the date of 
publication of this order, and any location, entry, selection, or 
subsequent patent shall be subject to any rights granted the State as 
provided by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 
818 (1988).

    Dated: February 7, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-5092 Filed 2-28-97; 8:45 am]
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