[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10651-10652]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5500]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[WY-921-1430-01; WYW 137811]


Public Land Order No. 7319; Withdrawal of Public Land for Spirit 
Mountain Caverns; Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 230.71 acres of public land from surface 
entry (except for disposal by exchange) and mining, for a period of 50 
years for the Bureau of Land Management to protect important cave/
geological resource values at the Spirit Mountain Caverns near Cody, 
Wyoming. The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Booth, BLM Wyoming State Office, 
P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, 307-775-6124.
    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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
(except disposal by exchange) under the general land laws, including 
the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), but not from 
leasing under the mineral leasing laws, to protect important cave/
geological values at the Spirit Mountain Caverns:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 52 N., R. 102 W.,
    Sec. 5, lot 19, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, 
SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 230.71 acres in Park County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 50 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review conducted before the 
expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) (1994), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.


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    Dated: February 17, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-5500 Filed 3-3-98; 8:45 am]
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