[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 237 (Wednesday, December 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65091-65092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32317]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0018; OR-19136]


Public Land Order No. 7301; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
June 18, 1924; 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 16,285 acres of National Forest System lands and 20 acres of 
public lands for the Bureau of Land Management's Powersite 
Classification No. 78. The lands are no longer needed for the purpose 
for which they were withdrawn. The lands will remain closed to surface 
entry and mining by other overlapping withdrawals, and a portion of the 
lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 9, 1998.

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 June 18, 1924, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 78, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Public Lands

T. 5 S., R. 49 E.,
    Protraction block no. 45 (formerly identified as sec. 30).

Wallowa and Whitman National Forests

T. 5 N., R. 47 E., (unsurveyed),
    Sec. 1, all unsurveyed lands lying within \1/4\ mile of the 
Snake River.
T. 4 N., R. 48 E.,
    Sec. 2, lot 1;
    Sec. 3, lots 3, 4, 5, and 6;
    Sec. 11, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4;
    Sec. 13, lot 1;
    Sec. 14, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4.
T. 5 N., R. 48 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29, 33, and 34, all unsurveyed lands 
lying within \1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 4 N., R. 49 E.,
    Sec. 16, lots 1 to 5, inclusive, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 17, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4;
    Sec. 18, lot 3 and that portion of Mineral Survey No. 469 
formerly known as lots 1, 2, and 3;
    Sec. 19, lots 1 and 2;
    Sec. 27, lots 1, 2, and 3, and SE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 35, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/
4\.
T. 1 N., R. 50 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 24, 25, 26, 35, and 36, all unsurveyed lands lying within 
\1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 2 N., R. 50 E.,
    Sec. 1, lots 1 and 4;
    Sec. 12, all lands lying within \1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 3 N., R. 50 E.,
    Sec. 4, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4;
    Sec. 10, lot 2, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, lots 1, 2, and 3, and S\1/2\SW\1/4\;

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    Sec. 13, lot 1;
    Sec. 14, lots 1, 2, and 3, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 23, E\1/2\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4;
    Sec. 25, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4;
    Sec. 26, E\1/2\E\1/2\.
T. 4 N., R. 50 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 31, 32, and 33, all unsurveyed lands lying within \1/4\ 
mile of the Snake River.
T. 1 N., R. 51 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 4, 5, 8, 17, 18, and 19, all unsurveyed lands lying within 
\1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 2 N., R. 51 E.,
    Secs. 7, 17, and 18, all unsurveyed lands lying within \1/4\ 
mile of the Snake River;
    Sec. 20, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 29, lot 3, and W\1/2\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ (formerly known as lot 
1);
    Sec. 33, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, and E\1/2\SW\1/4\.
T. 2 S., R. 49 E., (unsurveyed),
    Protraction block nos. 48, 49, and 52 (formerly identified as 
secs. 24, 25, and 35),
    Secs. 26 and 36, all unsurveyed lands lying within \1/4\ mile of 
the Snake River.
T. 3 S., R. 49 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 15, 22, 23, 26, 27, 33, and 34, all 
unsurveyed lands lying within \1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 4 S., R. 49 E., (unsurveyed),
    Protraction block nos. 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, and 48 (formerly 
identified as secs. 4, 9, 16, 21, 28, 29, and 32), all unsurveyed 
lands lying within \1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 5 S., R. 49 E., (unsurveyed)
    Protraction blocks nos. 37, 40 to 44, inclusive, (formerly 
identified as secs. 4, 8, 9, 17, 19, and 20), all unsurveyed lands 
lying within \1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
T. 1 S., R. 50 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 2, 3, 10, 11, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 33, all unsurveyed lands 
lying within \1/4\ mile of the Snake River.

T. 2 S., R. 50 E., (unsurveyed),
    Secs. 4, 5, 7, 8, 18, and 19, all unsurveyed lands lying within 
\1/4\ mile of the Snake River.
    The areas described aggregate approximately 16,305 acres in Wallowa 
County.
    2. The public lands in T. 5 S., R. 49 E., is included in the Hells 
Canyon National Recreation Area and Power Project No. 1971, and will 
not be restored to operation of the public land laws, including the 
mining and mineral leasing laws.
    3. The lands described in paragraph 1, except as provided by 
paragraph 2, are included in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, 
the Middle Snake Wild and Scenic River, and Power Project No. 1971, and 
will remain clod to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of 
National Forest System lands, including the mining laws. The lands 
lying outside the national recreation area and wild and scenic river 
boundaries have been and will remain open to applications and offers 
under the mineral leasing laws.

    Dated: November 26, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-32317 Filed 12-9-97; 8:45 am]
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