[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52767-52768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26815]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[CO-935-1430-01; COC-28607, COC-28644]


Public Land Order No. 7288; Partial Revocation of an Executive 
Order and a Secretarial Order; 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 
Secretarial order insofar as they affect 3,815.40 acres of National 
Forest System lands withdrawn for waterpower purposes. These lands no 
longer have waterpower value. The withdrawals will be revoked and the 
lands opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of 
National Forest System lands to allow for an exchange. The lands have 
been open to mining under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights 
Restoration Act of 1955, and these provisions are no longer required. 
The lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 24, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, 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. The Executive Order dated March 21, 1914, which established 
Power Site Reserve No. 427, and the Secretarial Order dated July 1, 
1944, which established Power Site Classification No. 362, are hereby 
revoked insofar as they affect the following described National Forest 
System lands:

Sixth Principal Meridian

Arapaho National Forest

T. 2 N., R. 71 W.,
    Sec. 4, lots 3 and 4, and S\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 5, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and S\1/2\N\1/2\.
T. 3 N., R. 71 W.,
    Sec. 19, lots 9 to 13, inclusive;
    Sec. 20, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 21, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 31, lots 11 and 12;
    Sec. 32, lots 8, 9, and 12 to 15, inclusive;
    Sec. 33, lots 3 to 6, inclusive, and 11 to 14, inclusive.
T. 2 N., R. 72 W.,
    Sec. 2, SE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 5, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 7, lots 11 and 14;
    Sec. 10, lots 1, 4, 5, and 7 to 16, inclusive;

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    Sec. 11, N\1/2\ and N\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 15, N\1/2\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and E\1/
2\W\1/2\.
T. 3 N., R. 72 W.,
    Sec. 15, lots 13 and 14;
    Sec. 21, lots 8 and 9;
    Sec. 24, lots 2, 4, and 8.
T. 3 N., R. 73 W.,
    Sec. 12, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 3,815.40 acres in Boulder County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on October 24, 1997, the lands described above shall 
be open to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National 
Forest System lands subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the 
requirements of applicable law.
    The lands have been open to mining under the provisions of the 
Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994), and 
these provisions are no longer required.

    Dated: September 26, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-26815 Filed 10-8-97; 8:45 am]
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