[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 132 (Thursday, July 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 37076]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18056]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CO-935-1430-01; COC-28583; COC-28645]


Public Land Order No. 7273; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Orders Dated July 2, 1910, Which Established Powersite Reserve No. 147, 
and August 10, 1944, Which Established Powersite Classification No. 
359; Opening of Land Under Section 24 of the Federal Power Act in 
Powersite Classification No. 359; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 25, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076, 303-239-
3706.

SUMMARY: This order partially revokes two Secretarial orders insofar as 
they affect 122.29 acres of National Forest System lands withdrawn for 
Water Power Purposes. This order also opens 52.95 acres of National 
Forest System land in Powersite Classification No. 359, subject to the 
provisions of Section 24 of the Federal Power Act, to permit 
consummation of a pending Forest Service land exchange. All of the 
lands have been and will remain open to mining and to mineral leasing.
    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:
    Secretarial Orders dated July 2, 1910, which established Powersite 
Reserve No. 147, and August 10, 1944, which established Powersite 
Classification No. 359, are hereby revoked insofar as they affect the 
following described National Forest System lands:

Roosevelt National Forest

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 8 N., R. 71 W.,
    Sec. 5, lot 3;
    Sec. 6, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 8 N., R. 73 W.,
    Sec. 5, lots 5 and 6;
    Sec. 6, lots 8 and 9.

    The areas described aggregate 122.29 acres of National Forest 
System lands in Larimer County.

    At 9:00 a.m. on July 25, 1997, the lands described above, are 
relieved of the segregative effects of Powersite Reserve No. 147 and 
Powersite Classification No. 359.
    2. The lands described in paragraph 1 have been open to mining 
under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 
1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994). However, since this act applies only to 
lands withdrawal for power purposes, the provisions of the act are no 
longer applicable. The lands have been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing.
    3. By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the 
Interior by Section 24 of the Act of June 10, 1920, as amended 16 
U.S.C. 818 (1994), and pursuant to the determination by the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission in DVCO-547, it is ordered as follows:
    At 9:00 a.m. on July 25, 1997, the following described National 
Forest System land withdrawn by Secretarial Order dated August 10, 
1944, which established Powersite Classification No. 359, will be 
opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National 
Forest System land, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the 
Federal Power Act as specified by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission in determination DVCO-547, and subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of 
record, and the requirements of applicable law:

Roosevelt National Forest

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 9 N., R. 74 W.,
    Sec. 30, lots 8 and 9.

    The area described contains 52.95 acres of National Forest 
System land in Larimer County.

    4. The land described in paragraph 3 has been and will remain open 
to location and entry under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights 
Restoration Act of 1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994). The land has been and 
will remain open to mineral leasing.

    Dated: June 24, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-18056 Filed 7-9-97; 8:45 am]
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