[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 15917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8518]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[ID-933-07-1330-01; IDI-28113]


Notice of Revocation of the Mountain Home Known Geothermal 
Resource Area: Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Mountain Home Known Geothermal Resource Area (KGRA) was 
defined effective February 1, 1974. The KGRA was established mostly on 
the basis of filing of overlapping non-competitive lease applications. 
Lands offered for competitive lease in 1975 received no bids. A 
competitive lease issued in 1977 expired in 1983 without exploration or 
development of any geothermal resources. The last competitive lease 
sale held in 1983 received no bids. Only about one-half of the land 
within the existing KGRA is underlain by Federal geothermal rights and 
none of the hot water wells within the KGRA are on Federal lands. There 
are no hot springs within the KGRA. The estimated geothermal reservoir 
temperatures of 70  deg.C to 135  deg.C have not been demonstrated. 
Revised subsurface temperatures are estimated at 60  deg.C to 80 
deg.C. For the above reason and the absence of any competitive 
interest, the area does not meet the current KGRA criteria and the 
lands are recommended to be declassified and made available for non-
competitive leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peter Oberlindacher, BLM Idaho State Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, 
Boise, Idaho, 83709, 208-373-3884.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Mountain Home KGRA contains the 
following lands:

Boise Meridian

T. 3 S., R. 8 E.
    Secs. 34 and 35.
T. 4 S., R. 8 E.
    Secs. 1, 2, and 3.
T. 4 S., R. 9 E.
    Secs. 6 through 9, 17 through 21, and 33.

    The area described aggregate 9,520.17 acres in Elmore County.

    Detailed information regarding this action including a description 
of lands included in the Mountain Home KGRA, are on file at the Idaho 
State Office of the BLM. Pursuant to authority contained in the Act of 
March 3, 1879, (43 U.S.C. 31), as supplemented by Reorganization Plan 
No. 3 of 1950 (43 U.S.C. 1451, note), 220 Departmental Manual 2, and 
Secretarial Orders No. 3071 and No. 3087, the Mountain Home Known 
Geothermal Resource Area, serial number IDI-28113, is revoked effective 
March 4, 1997.

    Dated: March 26, 1997.
Jimmie Buxton,
Branch Chief, Lands and Minerals.
[FR Doc. 97-8518 Filed 4-2-97; 8:45 am]
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