[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 58744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28710]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[ID-933-1430-01; IDI-15468]


Public Land Order No. 7294; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
February 18, 1909; Idaho

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 74.38 acres of National Forest System land for the Forest 
Service's Gorge Ranger Station. The land is no longer needed for the 
purpose for which it was withdrawn. This revocation is needed to 
transfer a portion of the land by sale under the Small Tract Act. This 
action will open the land to surface entry and mining. All of the land 
has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry R. Lievsay, BLM Idaho State 
Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709, 208-373-3864.
    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 February 18, 1909, which withdrew 
National Forest System land for administrative site purposes, is hereby 
revoked in its entirety:

Boise Meridian

T. 54 N., R. 3 E.,
    Sec. 4, lots 3 and 4.

    The area described contains 74.38 acres in Bonner County.

    2. At 9:00 a.m. on December 1, 1997, the land shall be opened to 
such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest 
System land, including location and entry under the United States 
mining laws, subject to valid rights, the provisions of existing 
withdrawals, other segregations or record, and the requirements of 
applicable law. Appropriation of 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 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: October 21, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-28710 Filed 10-29-97; 8:45 am]
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