[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 103 (Friday, May 29, 1998)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14226]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0092; OR-19082]


Public Land Order No. 7334; Revocation of the Executive Order 
Dated October 13, 1916; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety an Executive order which 
withdrew 6,026 acres of public lands for the Bureau of Land 
Management's Powersite Reserve No. 561. The lands are no longer needed 
for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. This action will open 
approximately 1,020 acres to surface entry. Of the remaining lands, 
4,806 acres will remain closed to surface entry, and 200 acres will 
remain closed to mining due to other overlapping withdrawals. All of 
the lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 28, 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 October 13, 1916, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 561, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 2 S., R. 15 E.,
    Sec. 13, SW\1/4\ and W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 14, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 23, NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\, and SW\1/
4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and W\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 26, E\1/2\W\1/2\ and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 27, S\1/2\SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 33, SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 34, W\1/2\E\1/2\ and W\1/2\.
T. 3 S., R. 15 E.,
    Sec. 3, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\ and W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 4, lots 1 and 2, S\1/2\N\1/2\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 7, lot 4, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, W\1/2\SW\1/4\ and E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 9, NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 17, NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\S\1/
2\;
    Sec. 18, lots 1, 2, and 3, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/
2\NW\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 1 S., R. 16 E.,
    Sec. 4, lot 3 and SE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 5, W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and E\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 19, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 30, lots 2, 3, and 4, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, and E\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 31, lots 1 and 2, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, W\1/
2\SE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 2 S., R. 16 E.,
    Sec. 5, lot 4 and SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 6, lots 1, 2, 3, and 7, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/
2\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 7, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and E\1/2\W\1/2\;
    Sec. 18, lots 1 and 2, and E\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The areas described aggregate 6,026 acres in Sherman and Wasco 
Counties.

    2. The lands described as the S\1/2\SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, 
sec. 13, and the NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, sec. 24, T. 2 S., 
R. 15 E., are withdrawn for the Bureau of Land Management's Macks 
Canyon Recreation Site, and will remain closed to operation of the 
public land laws, including the mining laws.
    3. The lands lying within the boundaries of the Bureau of Land 
Management Deschutes Wild and Scenic River withdrawal will remain 
closed to surface entry.
    4. At 8:30 a.m. on August 28, 1998, the lands described in 
paragraph 1, except as provided in paragraphs 2 and 3, 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 August 28, 
1998, will be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those 
received thereafter will be considered in the order of filing.
    5. The State of Oregon has a preference right 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: May 14, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-14226 Filed 5-28-98; 8:45 am]
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