[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 33091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16031]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 41504]


Public Land Order No. 7340; Opening of Lands Under Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order opens 1,278.84 acres of public lands in Bureau of 
Land Management Powersite Classification No. 334, subject to the 
provisions of Section 24 of the Federal Power Act. This action will 
permit disposal of the lands through a pending exchange and retain the 
waterpower rights to the United States. The lands are temporarily 
closed to surface entry and mining due to the pending exchange. The 
lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107-6800, 406-255-2949, or Susie 
Williams, BLM Headwaters Resource Area, P.O. Box 3388, Butte, Montana 
59702-3388, 406-494-5059.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 
(1994), and pursuant to the determination by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission in DVMT-243 and DVMT-247, it is ordered as 
follows:
    1. At 9:00 a.m. on June 17, 1998, the following described public 
lands withdrawn by the Secretarial Order dated February 18, 1943, which 
established Powersite Classification No. 334, will be opened to 
disposal by exchange, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the 
Federal Power Act, and subject to valid existing rights, the provisions 
of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the 
requirements of applicable law:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 2 S., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 34, W\1/2\SE\1/4\.
T. 3 S., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 2, lot 2, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, all.
T. 4 S., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 20, W\1/2\SE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 30, lots 3 and 4, and E\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 1,278.84 acres in Park County.

    2. The State of Montana was afforded timely notice to file an 
application for a reservation to the State for any lands required as a 
right-of-way for a highway, or as a source of materials for the 
construction and maintenance of such highways in accordance with the 
provisions of Section 24 of the Federal Power Act of June 10, 1920, as 
amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1994).

    Dated: June 4, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-16031 Filed 6-16-98; 8:45 am]
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