[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12836-12837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6790]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[ES-931-07-1430-01; MIES-033804]


Public Land Order No. 7249; Partial Revocation of Executive Order 
Dated July 24, 1875; Michigan

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive order insofar as it affects 
1.70 acres of public land withdrawn for use by the U.S. Coast Guard for 
lighthouse purposes. The land is no longer needed for lighthouse 
purposes. This action will open the land to surface entry. The land has 
been and remains open to mineral leasing.


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EFFECTIVE DATE: April 17, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed Ruda, BLM Eastern States Office, 
7450 Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153, 703-440-1671.
    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 July 24, 1875, which withdrew public 
land for use as lighthouse purposes, is hereby revoked insofar as it 
affects the following described land:

Michigan Meridian

Point Betsie Lighthouse

T. 26 N., R. 16 W.,
    Sec. 4, lot 10.

    The area described contains 1.70 acres in Benzie County.

    2. At 10:00 a.m. on April 17, 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 10 a.m. on April 17, 1997 shall be considered 
as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall 
be considered in the order of filing.

    Dated: February 19, 1997
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-6790 Filed 3-17-97; 8:45 am]
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