[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1495-1496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-535]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UT-045-1430-00; UTU-069117]


Public Land Order No. 7309; Partial Revocation of Public Land 
Order No. 4036; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes Public Land Order No. 4036 insofar as it 
affects 1,389.22 acres of public land withdrawn for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Dixie Project. The land is no longer needed for 
reclamation purposes, and the revocation is needed to permit disposal 
of specific tracts of public land through exchange under Section 206 of 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and sale under the 
Recreation and Public Purposes Act. This action will open the land to 
surface entry and mining unless closed by overlapping withdrawals or 
temporary segregations of record. The land has been and will remain 
open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 26, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVerne Steah, BLM Utah State Office, 
P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155, (801) 539-4114.
    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. Public Land Order No. 4036 dated June 6, 1966, which withdrew 
public land for the Bureau of Reclamation's

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Dixie Project, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following 
described land:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 42 S., R. 14 W.,
    Sec. 3, lots 5 to 7, inclusive, lots 9 to 14, inclusive, and 
lots 17 to 20, inclusive;
    Sec. 4, lots 6 to 8, inclusive;
    Sec. 9, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\W\1/2\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and 
SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, lots 7 to 9, inclusive, SE\1/
4\NW\1/4\, and W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, lot 2;
    Sec. 15, lot 2;
    Sec. 17, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 1,389.22 acres in Washington County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on January 26, 1998, 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. on January 26, 1998, shall be considered 
as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall 
be in the order of filing.
    3. At 9 a.m. on January 26, 1998, the land will be opened to 
location and entry under the United States mining laws, subject to 
valid existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law. 
Appropriation of any 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: December 24, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-535 Filed 1-8-98; 8:45 am]
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