[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2260-2261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-852]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0124; OR-19043, OR-19159]


Public Land Order No. 7310; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
July 2, 1910, and Secretarial Order Dated June 13, 1933; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in their entirety an Executive order and a 
Secretarial order which withdrew 520 acres of public lands for the 
Bureau of Land Management's Powersite Reserve No. 118 and Powersite 
Classification No. 274. The lands are no longer needed for the purposes 
for which they were withdrawn. This action will open 40 acres to 
surface entry. The remaining 480 acres are within an overlapping 
withdrawal and will remain closed to surface entry. All of the lands 
have been and will remain open to mining and mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 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 Executive Order dated July 2, 1910, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 118, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 1 S., R. 10 E.,
    Sec. 21, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 40 acres in Hood River County.

    2. The Secretarial Order dated June 13, 1933, which established 
Powersite Classification No. 274, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 1 S., R. 16 E.,
    Sec. 4, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, E\1/2\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 29, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 30, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 1 N., R. 15 E.,
    Sec. 14, E\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 26, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 1 N., R. 16 E.,
    Sec. 32, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 480 acres in Sherman and Wasco 
Counties.


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    3. The lands described in paragraph 2 are included in the Bureau of 
Land Management's withdrawal for the Deschutes Wild and Scenic River, 
and will remain closed to operation of the public land laws. The lands 
have been and continue to be open to location and entry under the 
mining laws, and to applications and offers under the mineral leasing 
laws.
    4. At 8:30 a.m. on April 14, 1998, the lands described in paragraph 
1 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 8:30 
a.m., on April 14, 1998, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing.
    5. The State of Oregon has a preference right, as to the lands 
described in paragraph 1, for public highway right-of-way or material 
sites for a period of 90 days from the date of publication of this 
order, and any location, entry, selection, or subsequent patent shall 
be subject to any rights granted the State as provided by the Act of 
June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1994).

    Dated: December 24, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-852 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]
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