[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 89 (Thursday, May 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25202-25203]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11942]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CA-1430-01; CACA 7003 et al.]


Public Land Order No. 7258; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Orders Dated April 20, 1936, July 29, 1936, and July 7, 1936, and 
Bureau of Land Management Orders Dated February 27, 1952, and October 
21, 1995; California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes three Secretarial orders and two 
Bureau of Land Management orders insofar as they affect 1,002.74 acres 
of public lands withdrawn for the Bureau of Reclamation's Central 
Valley Project. Of the 1,002.74 acres being revoked, 906.62 acres will 
be opened to surface entry and mining unless closed by overlapping 
withdrawals or temporary segregations of record. The remaining 96.12 
acres have been and will remain closed to surface entry and mining 
because they are included in overlapping withdrawals. The lands have 
been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duane Marti, BLM California State 
Office (CA-931.4), 2135 Butano Drive, Sacramento, California 95825, 
916-979-2858.


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    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 Orders dated April 20, 1936, July 29, 1936, and 
July 7, 1936, and Bureau of Land Management Orders dated February 27, 
1952, and October 21, 1955, which withdrew public lands for the Bureau 
of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, are hereby revoked insofar as 
they affect the following described lands:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 32 N., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 4, N\1/2\S\1/2\ of lot 20, and lot 32;
    Sec. 7, lots 24 through 39, inclusive;
    Sec. 8, lots 5, 6, and 21;
    Sec. 17, lots 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, and 22;
    Sec. 20, lot 1.
T. 33 N., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 21, lot 1;
    Sec. 31, lots 1, 7, 9, NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\SE\1/
4\;
    Sec. 32, W\1/2\ of lot 19, and lots 10, 16, and 21.

    The areas described aggregate 1,002.74 acres in Shasta County.

    2. The following described lands are included in overlapping 
withdrawals and thus remain withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, 
or entry under the general land laws, including the mining laws:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 32 N., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 4, N\1/2\S\1/2\ of lot 20.
T. 33 N., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 21, lot 1;
    Sec. 32, lots 16 and 21.

    The areas described aggregate 96.12 acres in Shasta County.

    3. At 10 a.m. on June 9, 1997, the lands described in paragraph 1, 
except for those described in paragraph 2, 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 June 9, 1997, shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be 
considered in the order of filing.
    4. At 10 a.m. on June 9, 1997, the lands described in paragraph 1, 
except for those described in paragraph 2, will be open 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: April 25, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-11942 Filed 5-7-97; 8:45 am]
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