[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 182 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49252-49253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24892]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[WY-921-1430-01; WYW 71191-03]


Public Land Order No. 7284; Opening of Land Under Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act; Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order opens 40 acres of National Forest System land in 
Power Site Classification No. 286, subject to the provisions of Section 
24 of the Federal Power Act. This order will permit consummation of a 
pending land exchange and retain the waterpower rights to the United 
States. The land has been and will continue to be open to mining under 
the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, and 
to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 19, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Booth, BLM Wyoming State Office,

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P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, 307-775-6124.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 
(1994), and pursuant to the determination by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission in DVWY-192, it is ordered as follows:
    1. At 9 a.m., on September 19, 1997, the following described 
National Forest System land withdrawn by the Secretarial Order dated 
July 16, 1934, which established Power Site Classification No. 286, 
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, and subject to valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law:

Sixth Principal Meridian

Bridger-Teton National Forest

T. 38 N., R. 115 W.,
    Sec. 5, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 40 acres in Teton County.

    2. The land has been and remains open to location and entry under 
the United States mining laws, subject to the provisions of the Act of 
August 11, 1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994), and to applications and offers 
under the mineral leasing laws.

    Dated: September 4, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-24892 Filed 9-18-97; 8:45 am]
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