[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 89 (Thursday, May 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 25203]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11941]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP6-0277; OR-19676 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7255; Revocation of Geological Survey Order 
Dated May 19, 1950; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety a Geological Survey order 
which withdrew 573.31 acres of National Forest System lands for the 
Bureau of Land Management's Powersite Classification No. 408. The lands 
are no longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. 
This action will open 180.75 acres of lands to surface entry, which 
have been and will remain open to mining and mineral leasing. Of the 
lands being revoked, 312.56 acres are within other overlapping 
withdrawals and will remain closed to surface entry and mining, but 
will remain open to mineral leasing, and 80 acres have been conveyed 
out of Federal ownership.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 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 Geological Survey Order dated May 19, 1950, which 
established Powersite Classification No. 408, is hereby revoked in its 
entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Colville National Forest

T. 36 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 15, lots 5 and 8.
T. 37 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 33, lots 4, 5, and 8.
T. 38 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 32, lots 1, 2, and 3.
T. 35 N., R. 44 E.,
    Sec. 7, lot 4;
    Sec. 19, lots 1, 2, 6, and 7;
    Sec. 20, lot 3.

Kaniksu National Forest

T. 34 N., R. 44 E.,
    Sec. 5, lots 1, 7, and 8;
    Sec. 7, W.\1/2\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 573.31 acres in Pend Oreille 
County.

    2. At 8:30 a.m., on June 9, 1997, the following described lands 
will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of 
National Forest System lands, subject to valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law:

Willamette Meridian

Colville National Forest

T. 38 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 32, those portions of lots 1, 2, and 3 lying outside the 
boundary of Power Project No. 2042.
T. 35 N., R. 44 E.,
    Sec. 7, that portion of lot 4 lying outside the boundary of 
Power Project No. 2042;
    Sec. 20, that portion of lot 3 lying outside the boundary of 
Power Project No. 2042.

Kaniksu National Forest

T. 34 N., R. 44 E.,
    Sec. 5, lots 1, 7, and 8.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 180.75 acres in Pend 
Oreille County.

    3. The following described land has been conveyed out of Federal 
ownership and will not be opened to the operation of the public land 
laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws:
T. 34 N., R., 44 E.,
    Sec. 7, W\1/2\SE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 80 acres in Pend Oreille County.

    4. The lands described in paragraph 1, except as provided in 
paragraphs 2 and 3, are within the overlapping withdrawals for a Forest 
Service recreation area or Power Project No. 2042, and will remain 
closed to operation of the public land laws, including the mining laws.

    Dated: April 24, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-11941 Filed 5-7-97; 8:45 am]
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