[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45871-45872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23079]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0065; OR-19164]


Public Land Order No. 7279; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
March 23, 1935; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety a Secretarial order which 
withdrew 120 acres of public land for the Bureau of Land Management's 
Powersite Classification No. 287. The land is no longer needed for the 
purpose for which it was withdrawn. This action will open the land to 
surface entry. The land has been and will remain open to mining and 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 28, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty McCarthy, BLM Oregon/Washington 
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.
    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. The Secretarial Order dated March 23, 1935, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 287, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Revested Oregon and California Railroad Grant Land

T. 18 S., R. 6 W.,
    Sec. 5, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and E\1/2\SE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 120 acres in Lane County.

    2. The State of Oregon has a preference right for public highway 
right-of-way or material sites for a period of 90 days from the date of 
publication of this order and any location, entry, selection, or 
subsequent patent shall be subject to any rights granted the State as 
provided by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 
818 (1994).
    3. At 8:30 a.m. on November 28, 1997, the land described in 
paragraph 1 will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law 
be made of Revested Oregon and California Railroad Grant Land, 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 8:30 a.m., on November 28, 
1997, will be considered as simultaneously filed at

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that time. Those received thereafter will be considered in the order of 
filing.

    Dated: August 12, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-23079 Filed 8-28-97; 8:45 am]
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