[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 145 (Tuesday, July 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40541-40542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19840]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UT-080-1430-00; UTU 2036, UTU 4061]


Public Land Order No. 7276; Partial Revocation of Executive Order 
No. 5327 and Public Land Order No. 4522; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive order and a public 
land order insofar as they affect 75 acres of public land withdrawn for 
protection of oil shale resources. The withdrawals are no longer needed 
for this purpose and revocations are needed to permit disposal of the 
land through sale under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, as 
amended. The land is temporarily closed to surface entry and mining due 
to a pending sale application. The land has been and will remain open 
to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 28, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVerne Steah, BLM Utah State Office, 
P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155, (801) 539-4114.
    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. Executive Order No. 5327 and Public Land Order No. 4522, which 
withdrew public land for the protection of oil shale and associated 
values, are hereby revoked insofar as they affect the following 
described land:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 5 S., R. 19 E.
    Sec. 11, W\1/2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/
4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 75 acres in Uintah County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on August 28, 1997, the land will be opened to the 
operation of the public land laws generally, subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of 
record, and the requirements of applicable law. All valid applications 
received at or prior to 9 a.m. August 28, 1997, shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be 
considered in the order of filing.
    3. At 9 a.m. on August 28, 1997, the land will be opened to 
location and entry under the United States mining laws, subject to 
valid existing rights, provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law. 
Appropriation of any of the land 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

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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: July 16, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-19840 Filed 7-28-97; 8:45 am]
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