[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45856-45857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23052]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 40730, MTM 40731, MTM 40733]


Public Land Order No. 7354; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Orders Dated May 21, 1906, May 13, 1907, and February 16, 1909; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes three Secretarial orders insofar 
as they affect 6.62 acres of public land withdrawn for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Lower Yellowstone and Huntley Reclamation Projects and 
the Huntley Townsite. The land is no longer needed for these purposes 
and the revocations are needed to permit disposal of the land through 
direct sale. This action will open the land to surface entry subject to 
temporary segregations of record. The land is temporarily closed to 
mining due to the pending sale proposal. The land has been and will 
remain open to mineral leasing. The minerals are held in trust for the 
Crow Tribe by the United States in accordance with the Act of August 
14, 1958 (72 Stat. 575).


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EFFECTIVE DATE: September 28, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949.
    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 Secretarial Orders dated May 21, 1906, May 13, 1907, and 
February 16, 1909, which withdrew public land for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Lower Yellowstone and Huntley Reclamation Projects and 
Huntley Townsite, are hereby revoked insofar as they affect the 
following-described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 2 N., R. 27 E.,
    Secs. 24 and 25, alleys in blocks 15, 16, 18, and 20; Beech 
Street between blocks 16 and 18; Cane Street between blocks 14 and 
15; Cane Street between blocks 18 and 20; First Street North 
situated between blocks 16, 18, and 20 on the north and blocks 14 
and 15 on the south; Second Street North situated between blocks 17, 
19, and 21 on the north and blocks 16, 18, and 20 on the south.
    Sec. 25, lot 47, block 9.

    The area described contains 6.62 acres in Huntley Townsite, 
Yellowstone County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on September 28, 1998, the land 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 September 28, 1998, shall be 
considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received 
thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    3. All mineral interests in the above-described land are owned by 
the United States in trust for the Crow Tribe, and shall be leased or 
otherwise disposed of under the laws and regulations relating to Indian 
trust lands as provided by the Act of August 14, 1958 (72 Stat. 575).

    Dated: August 13, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-23052 Filed 8-26-98; 8:45 am]
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