[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 140 (Tuesday, July 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39248-39249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19192]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service
Bureau of Land Management


Notice of Boundary Adjustments in Butte County and Blaine County, 
Idaho

SUMMARY: This announces a revision of the boundary of Craters of the 
Moon National Monument and adjacent lands, including public domain 
lands. These changes were made pursuant to Public Law 104-333 (110 
Stat. 4093 et seq.) to facilitate land management and protection of the 
natural resources of the watershed within this revised portion of the 
Monument's hydrographic boundary.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Superintendent, Craters of the Moon National Monument, P.O. Box 29 
(Highway 26), Arco, ID 83213-0029 (208) 527-3257.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective November 12, 1996, the boundary of 
Craters of the Moon National Monument was revised to add approximately 
210 acres; however, approximately 315 acres previously within portions 
of the Monument were deleted. Federal lands and interests deleted from 
the boundary of the Monument shall now be administered by the Bureau of 
Land Management under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and the public land laws.

    Federal lands and interests added to the Monument shall be 
administered by the National Park Service. As of the above effective 
date, the Federal lands added to the Monument are also segregated and 
reserved from the operation of the public land laws, including all 
forms of entry, appropriation or disposal under the mining and mineral 
leasing laws, and all amendments thereto.
    Subject to valid existing rights, the lands affected by this 
boundary adjustment are located within:

Boise Meridian

Township 2 North, Range 24 East,
    Sections 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 and 28,

    Affecting Butte County and Blaine County, Idaho.

    These changes were made to protect the Monument's only potable 
water resources and to resolve long standing

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grazing, hunting, and mining concerns for the management of the federal 
lands within the areas' hydrologic divide of the Little Cottonwood 
Creek watershed. The official map depicting this boundary adjustment, 
entitled ``Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, Public Law 
104-333 Boundary Adjustment,'' numbered 131-80,008A, dated November 12, 
1996, is on file and available for inspection in the office of the 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Land Resources 
Program Center, Columbia Cascades Systems Office, 909 First Avenue, 
Seattle, WA 98104-1060 (206) 220-4065.

    Dated: May 29, 1997.
William C. Walters,
Deputy Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
[FR Doc. 97-19192 Filed 7-21-97; 8:45 am]
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