[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 116 (Tuesday, June 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 32819]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15779]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[ID-933-1430-01; IDI-05283 01]


Public Land Order No. 7267; Partial Revocation of Public Land 
Order No. 2377; Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a public land order insofar as it 
affects 560.39 acres of National Forest System lands withdrawn by the 
Forest Service for the Bluff Creek Timber Access Road. The lands are no 
longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn, and the 
revocation is needed to transfer the lands by exchange. This action 
will open the lands to surface entry and mining. All of the lands have 
been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 17, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry R. Lievsay, BLM Idaho State 
Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 93709, 208-373-3864.
    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. Public Land Order No. 2377, which withdrew National Forest 
System lands for a variety of administrative, resource, and 
recreational purposes, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the 
following described lands.

Boise Meridian

T. 43 N., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 2, lot 4.
T. 44 N., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 24, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\SW\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\ and NE\1/
4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 26, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 34, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 560.39 acres in Shoshone County.

    2. At 9:00 a.m., on July 17, 1997, the lands shall be opened to 
such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest 
System lands, including 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 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 (1994), 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: June 6, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-15779 Filed 6-16-97; 8:45 am]
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