[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32894-32895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15865]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[AZ-025-06-1150-04; AZA 29318]


Public Land Order No. 7341; Withdrawal of Public Land for the 
Clay Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern; Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 1,119.24 acres of public land from 
surface entry and mining for a period of 50 years for the Bureau of 
Land Management to protect the federally endangered Arizona cliffrose 
within the Clay Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern. The land 
has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 16, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Hall, BLM Kingman Field Office, 
2475 Beverly Avenue, Kingman, Arizona 86401, 520-692-4412.
    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land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
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 the Bureau of Land Management's Clay Hills 
Area of Critical Environmental Concern:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

    T. 14 N., R. 11 W.,
    Sec. 1, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S\1/2\N\1/2\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec 2, SE\1/4\;
    Sec 11, NE\1/4\;
    Sec 12, N\1/2\N\1/2\.
    The area described contains 1,119.24 acres in Mohave County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the land 
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: June 4, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-15865 Filed 6-15-98; 8:45 am]
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