[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 45857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23045]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OK-040-1430-01; OKNM 82774]


Public Land Order No. 7359; Transfer of Jurisdiction; Oklahoma

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order transfers the administrative jurisdiction of 391.27 
acres of land withdrawn for use by the military at Fort Sill, Oklahoma 
from the United States Department of the Army to the United States 
Department of Veterans Affairs for the construction and operation of a 
national cemetery. This transfer of jurisdiction is directed by the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 
104-201).

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Ledbetter, BLM Moore Field 
Office, 221 North Service Road, Moore, Oklahoma 73160-4946, (405) 794-
9624.
    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), and in accordance with Section 2822 of Public 
Law 104-201, it is ordered as follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, the administrative 
jurisdiction of the following described public land is hereby 
transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the construction 
and operation of a national cemetery:

Indian Meridian

T. 3 N., R. 11 W.

    A tract of land located in sec. 2 and sec. 3, being more 
particularly described as follows:
    Beginning at the northwest corner of sec. 3 as the point of 
beginning, thence S. 89 deg.38'12'' E., along the north boundary of 
sec. 3 a distance of 5,260.09 ft., to the northeast corner of sec. 
3, said point also being the northwest corner of sec. 2, thence S. 
89 deg.52'27'' E., along the north boundary of sec. 2 a distance of 
2,308.55 ft. to a point on the northwest right-of-way of the H.E. 
Bailey Turnpike or Interstate 44, thence S. 63 deg.29'39'' W., along 
the northwest right-of-way of H.E. Bailey Turnpike or Interstate 44 
a distance of 1,138.77 ft. to a point, thence southwesterly along a 
curve to the left, having a radius of 28,797.89 ft., a distance of 
1,465.98 ft., said curve being subtended by a chord 1,465.82 ft. 
long bearing S. 62 deg.03'28'' W., to a point of intersection with 
the west line of sec. 2 and the northwest right-of-way of H.E. 
Bailey Turnpike or Interstate 44, said point being located 1,200.15 
ft. S. 00 deg.15'39'' W., of the northwest corner of sec. 2, thence 
continuing southwesterly along said northwest right-of-way on a 
curve to the left, having a radius of 28,797.89 ft., a distance of 
4,692.75 ft., said curve being subtended by a chord 4,687.56 ft. 
long bearing S. 55 deg.55'52'' W., to a point, thence continuing 
along northwest right-of-way S. 51 deg.14'54'' W. a distance of 
1,828.77 ft. to the west boundary of sec. 3, said point being 
located 194.05 ft. N. 00 deg.37'34'' E., of the southwest corner of 
sec. 3; thence N. 00 deg.37'34'' E., a distance of 5,004.43 ft. to 
the point of beginning, containing 391.27 acres, more or less, which 
includes a 33.00 ft. wide statutory roadway right-of-way along west 
property line.

    The area described contains 391.27 acres in Comanche County.

    2. Future use of the land shall be in accordance with and subject 
to the provisions of Section 2822 of Public Law 104-201.

    Dated: August 13, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-23045 Filed 8-26-98; 8:45 am]
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