[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 110 (Monday, June 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31450-31451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14927]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[AK-931-1430-01; AA-8964, AA-11330]


Public Land Order No. 7263; Transfer of Administrative 
Jurisdiction of Public Lands; Alaska

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order transfers administrative jurisdiction of 
approximately 8.94 acres of public lands located within the boundaries 
of the Tongass National Forest from the Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management to the Department of Agriculture, Forest 
Service for a period of 20 years in order to provide the Forest Service 
with the opportunity to pursue legislation to have the lands 
permanently returned to the Tongass National Forest. The lands are 
unpatented homesites that were excluded from the Forest by previous 
Executive orders.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley J. Macke, BLM Alaska State 
Office, 222 W. 7th Avenue, No. 13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599, 907-
271-3266.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 (1994), it is ordered as 
follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, administrative jurisdiction of 
the following described lands is hereby transferred from the Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, to the Department of 
Agriculture, Forest Service, to be included in the Tongass National 
Forest, and to be managed in accordance with the various acts that 
govern uses of National Forest System lands:
Copper River Meridian
(a) Fish Creek (AA-8964)
    Executive Order No. 5947, dated November 16, 1932, excluded 
Homesite No. 197 from the Tongass National Forest. The parcel, located 
within sec. 23, T. 68 S., R. 99 E., is more particularly described by 
metes and bounds as: Beginning at corner No. 1, Homesite No. 197, lying 
westerly of the Salmon River Road on the right bank of Fish Creek, and 
just northerly of its confluence with the Salmon River, at approximate 
latitude 55 deg.56' North, longitude 130 deg.02' West; Thence N. 
5 deg.30'

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W., 5.00 chs., paralleling Salmon River Road to corner No. 2; Thence 
westerly 7.00 chs., to corner No. 3; Thence southerly, 7.06 chs., to 
corner No. 4; Thence easterly 6.13 chs., to corner No. 5; Thence N. 
33 deg. E., 2.50 chs., to corner No. 1, the point of beginning.
    The area described contains approximately 5 acres.
(b) Farragut Bay (AA-11330)
    Executive Order No. 5449, dated September 25, 1930, excluded 
Homesite No. 42 from the Tongass National Forest. The parcel, located 
within sec. 21, T. 55 S., R. 71 E., is more particularly described by 
metes and bounds as: Beginning at the point for corner No. 1, a meander 
corner on the easterly shore of Farragut Bay, at approximate latitude 
57 deg.06' North, longitude 133 deg.10' West; Thence, with meanders 
along the line of approximate mean high tide, S. 16 deg. E., 4.00 chs., 
S. 1\1/2\ deg. W., 2.00 chs., S. 11\1/2\ deg. W., 2.00 chs., S. 32\1/
2\ deg. W., 4.00 chs., to the point for corner No. 2, a meander corner; 
Thence S., 53 deg. E., 2.71 chs., to the point for corner No. 3; Thence 
with meanders along the line of approximate high tide, N. 18 deg. E., 
1.56 chs., N. 63\1/2\ deg. E., 4.00 chs., to the point for corner No. 
4, a meander corner; Thence N., 10\1/2\ deg. W., 9.70 chs., to the 
point for corner No. 5; Thence westerly 2.96 chs., to the point for 
corner No. 1, the point of beginning.
    The area described contains approximately 3.94 acres.
    The total areas described in (a) and (b) aggregate approximately 
8.94 acres.
    2. In the event the lands are permanently returned to the Tongass 
National Forest pursuant to legislative action, this order will 
terminate simultaneously with the effective date of the legislation. 
Otherwise, this order will expire 20 years from the effective date, and 
administrative jurisdiction will return to the Department of the 
Interior, Bureau of Land Management, unless, as a result of a review 
conducted before the expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) 
(1994), the Secretary determines that the order shall be extended.

    Dated: May 28, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
[FR Doc. 97-14927 Filed 6-6-97; 8:45 am]
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