[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 44 (Friday, March 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 11307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5825]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[AZ-930-1430-01; AZA 12961, AZA 13006, AZA 12978]


Public Land Order No. 7321; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
March 27, 1943, and Bureau of Reclamation Order Dated June 3, 1952; 
Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes, in their entirety, a Secretarial order and 
a Bureau of Reclamation order as they affect 25,505.12 acres of lands 
withdrawn for the Bureau of Reclamation's Mogollon Mesa Project. The 
project has not been developed and there is no further need for the 
lands to be withdrawn. Of the lands being revoked, 1,916.24 acres have 
been conveyed out of Federal ownership. The action will open the 
remaining 23,588.88 acres to mining and to such forms of disposition as 
may by law be made of National Forest System lands. The lands have been 
and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 6, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Yardley, BLM Arizona State 
Office, 222 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2203, 602-417-
9437.
    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 March 27, 1943, and the Bureau of 
Reclamation Order dated June 3, 1952, which withdrew lands for the 
Bureau of Reclamation's Mogollon Mesa Project, are hereby revoked in 
their entirety. The lands involved aggregate 25,505.12 acres in 
Coconino and Navajo Counties.
    2. At 10 a.m. on April 6, 1998, the lands that are still in Federal 
ownership will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be 
made of National Forest System lands, subject to valid existing rights, 
the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, 
and the requirements of applicable law.
    3. At 10 a.m. on April 6, 1998, the lands that are still in Federal 
ownership 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 10 a.m. 
on April 6, 1998 shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that 
time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order of 
filing.

    Dated: February 17, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-5825 Filed 3-5-98; 8:45 am]
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