[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17014-17015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9087]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[ID-933-1430-00; IDI-21007 et al.]


Public Land Order No. 7324; Revocation of 19 Executive Orders and 
5 Secretarial Orders; Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes 19 Executive orders and 5 Secretarial 
orders insofar as they affect 95,716.41 acres of lands withdrawn for 
certain Bureau of Land Management Powersite Classifications and 
Reserves in the State of Idaho. Of the lands being revoked, 52,886.56 
acres will be opened to surface entry. The remaining 42,829.85 acres 
will remain closed to surface entry and mining due to overlapping 
withdrawals or having been conveyed out of Federal ownership. All of 
the lands containing Federally owned minerals have been and will remain 
open to mineral leasing. The lands still in Federal ownership and not 
overlapped by other withdrawals, have been and will remain open to 
mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 7, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry R. Lievsay, BLM Idaho State 
Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709, 208-373-3864.
    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 following 19 Executive orders and 5 Secretarial orders are 
hereby revoked insofar as they affect the lands

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described in the orders referenced below:
    (a) Executive Order dated April 16, 1912, Powersite Reserve No. 259 
(IDI-21007);
    (b) Executive Order dated October 22, 1912, Powersite Reserve No. 
305 (IDI-19424);
    (c) Executive Order dated February 18, 1913, Powersite Reserve No. 
341 (IDI-15616);
    (d) Executive Order dated October 22, 1913, Powersite Reserve No. 
226 (IDI-15640);
    (e) Executive Order dated January 13, 1914, Powersite Reserve No. 
410 (IDI-15608);
    (f) Executive Orders dated July 1, 1913, April 21, 1914, 
Secretarial Order dated February 21, 1941, Powersite Reserve No. 223 
(IDI-15641);
    (g) Secretarial Order dated December 9, 1926, Powersite 
Classification No. 155 (IDI-15699);
    (h) Executive Order dated January 29, 1913, Powersite Reserve No. 
338 (IDI-15617);
    (i) Executive Orders dated April 21, 1914, July 1, 1913, December 
17, 1912, July 2, 1910, February 25, 1914, September 10, 1918, 
Secretarial Orders dated April 5, 1921, November 18, 1938, January 13, 
1936, Powersite Reserve No. 8 (IDI-15652);
    (j) Executive Order dated February 23, 1915, Powersite Reserve No. 
483 (IDI-15600);
    (k) Executive Order dated July 10, 1913, Powersite Reserve No. 385 
(IDI-15609);
    (l) Executive Order dated July 2, 1910, Powersite Reserve No. 140 
(IDI-16030).
The areas described within the above Secretarial orders and Executive 
orders aggregate 95,716.41 acres in Gem, Idaho, Boundary, Adams, 
Shoshone, Custer, Valley, Lewis, Nez Perce, Lemhi, Caribou and 
Clearwater Counties.
    2. At 9 a.m. on May 7, 1998, the lands referenced in paragraph 1, 
except those lands overlapped by other withdrawals or conveyed out of 
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 9 a.m. on May 7, 1998, shall be considered as simultaneously 
filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in 
the order of filing.

    Dated: March 13, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-9087 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]
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