[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35221-35222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17049]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 059318, MTM 40641, and MTM 41263]


Public Land Order No. 7272; Partial Revocation of Executive Order 
Dated July 9, 1910, Which Established Coal Reserve Montana No. 1, and 
Opening of Land, Under Section 24 of the Federal Power Act, Withdrawn 
by Secretarial Order Dated February 21, 1924, Which Established 
Powersite Classification No. 57, and Federal Power Commission Order No. 
2188; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive order insofar as it 
affects 10 acres of National Forest System land withdrawn for the 
Bureau of Land Management's Coal Reserve Montana No. 1. The land is no 
longer needed for this purpose. This order also opens the same land 
withdrawn by Secretarial order for the Bureau of Land Management's 
Powersite Classification No. 57 and the Federal Power Commission Order 
dated April 23, 1956, as amended, for Power Project No. 2188. These 
actions will permit disposal of the land through a pending Forest 
Service exchange and retain the power rights to the United States. The 
land is temporarily closed to surface entry and mining due to the 
pending exchange. Uses not authorized by the license for Power Project 
No. 2188 continue to be prohibited without the consent of the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 30, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949.
    1. 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:
    The Executive Order dated July 9, 1910, which withdrew National 
Forest System land to establish Coal Reserve Montana No. 1 is hereby 
revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 12 S., R. 4 E.,
    Sec. 12, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 10 acres in Gallatin County.

    At 9 a.m. on July 30, 1997 the land described in paragraph 1 will 
be

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relieved of the segregative effects of Coal Reserve Montana No. 1.
    2. By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the 
Interior by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 
818 (1994), it is ordered as follows:
    At 9 a.m. on July 30, 1997 the land described in paragraph 1 
withdrawn by Secretarial Order dated February 21, 1924, which 
established Powersite Classification No. 57, and Federal Power 
Commission Order dated April 23, 1956, for Power Project No. 2188, will 
be opened to disposal by land exchange, subject to the provisions of 
Section 24 of the Federal Power Act, and subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of 
record, and the requirements of applicable law.

    Dated: June 13, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-17049 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]
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