[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 118 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 33436]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16092]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CA-930-1430-01; CACA 30534-01]


Public Land Order No. 7271; Extension of Withdrawal; Public Land 
Order No. 7069; California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: This order extends Public Land Order No. 7069, which withdrew 
1,000 acres of public land from agricultural entry and mining to allow 
the State of California time to study their proposal to site a low-
level radioactive waste facility in Ward Valley, for an additional 2-
year period. The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 11, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Public Information Section, BLM 
California State Office, 2135 Butano Drive, Sacramento, California 
95825, 916-979-2800.
    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. 7069, which withdrew the following 
described public land from settlement or entry under the agricultural 
land laws and location under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. 
Ch. 2, (1994)), but not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, to 
protect the land while the State California conducts a study of the 
area to determine the feasibility of locating the proposed Ward Valley 
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility at the site, and for other 
purposes, is hereby extended for an additional 2-year period.

San Bernardino Meridian

T. 9 N., R. 19 E.,
    Sec. 26, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 27, S\1/2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 34;
    Sec. 35, W\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The area described contains 1,000 acres in San Bernardino 
County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the land 
under land lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of 
their vegetative resources.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 2 years from the effective date of 
this order 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 withdrawal shall be extended. If a patent is issued 
prior to the expiration date of this extension, this protective 
withdrawal will automatically terminate.

    Dated: June 6, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-16092 Filed 6-18-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-40-P