[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 111 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 31620]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15029]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UT-942-1430-01; UTU 42966; Public Land Order No. 7264]


Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated March 12, 1931, Which 
established Power Site Classification No. 259; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial order in its entirety 
affecting 2,303.13 acres of public lands withdrawn for the Bureau of 
Land Management's Powersite Classification No. 259. The waterpower 
potential in these lands has been fully developed. The lands are no 
longer needed for waterpower purposes and the revocation is needed to 
dispose of the lands through either a land exchange or for recreation 
and public purposes. This action will open the lands to surface entry, 
subject to valid existing rights, except for 233.60 acres that have 
been conveyed out of Federal ownership. The lands, except those 
conveyed out of Federal ownership with no mineral reservation, have 
been open to mining under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights 
Restoration Act of 1955, and to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael L. Barnes, Salt Lake District 
Office, 2370 South 2300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119, 801-977-4372.
    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. The Secretarial Order dated March 12, 1931, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 259, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Salt Lake Meridian

(a) Federal Land and Minerals

T. 39 S., R. 16 W.,
    Sec. 21, E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 31, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 33, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 40 S., R. 16 W.,
    Sec. 5, lot 2, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SW\1/
4\;
    Sec. 7, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 18, lots 1, 2, and E\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 19, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 40 S., R. 17 W.,
    Sec. 11, N\1/2\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, S\1/2\NE\1/4\ and N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 33, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and N\1/
2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 34, lots 3, 4, S\1/2\N\1/2\, and N\1/2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 35, lots 2, 3, NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and 
NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 2,069.53 acres in Washington 
County.

(b) Private Surface and Minerals

T. 40 S., R. 16 W.,
    Sec. 19, lot 2.
    The area described contains 39.88 acres in Washington County.

(c) Private Surface, Federal Minerals Reserved

T. 39 S., R. 16 W.,
    Sec. 28, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ and S\1/2\NW\1/4\.
T. 40 S., R. 17 W.,
    Sec. 33, lots 2 and 3.

    The area described contains 193.72 acres in Washington County. 
Total areas described in (a), (b), and (c) aggregate 2,303.13 acres 
in Washington County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on July 10, 1997, the lands described in paragraph 
1(a) 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 9 a.m. 
July 10, 1997 shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. 
Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    3. The lands described in paragraph 1(a) and (c) have been open to 
mining under the provisions of the Mining Claims Restoration Act of 
1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994). However, since this act applies only to 
lands withdrawn for power purposes, the provisions of the act are no 
longer applicable.
    4. The State of Utah, with respect to the lands described in 
paragraph 1(a), has waived its preference right to file for the public 
highway rights-of-way or material sites, as provided by the Act of June 
10, 1920, Section 24 as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1994).

    Dated: May 30, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-15029 Filed 6-9-97; 8:45 am]
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