[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 181 (Thursday, September 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 49024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24834]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CO-930-1430-01; COC 1269]


Public Land Order No. 7283; Partial Revocation of Executive Order 
No. 5327 and Public Land Order No. 4522; Colorado

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land order insofar as they affect 164.86 acres of public land withdrawn 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: October 20, 1997.

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

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 6 S., R. 94 E.,
    Sec. 17, lots 18, 20, 22, and 24;
    Sec. 20, lots 1, 5, 8, and 11.

    The area described contains 164.86 acres in Garfield County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on October 20, 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. October 20, 1997, shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be 
considered in the order of filing.

    Dated: September 4, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-24834 Filed 9-17-97; 8:45 am]
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