[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 45860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23054]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0199; OR-19600 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7355; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
February 25, 1914; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive order in its entirety as to 
the remaining 40 acres of public land withdrawn for Bureau of Land 
Management Powersite Reserve No. 418. The land is no longer needed for 
the purpose for which it was withdrawn. This action will open 
approximately 30 acres to surface entry. This land has been and will 
remain open to mining. The remaining 10 acres will remain closed to 
surface entry and mining due to another overlapping withdrawal. All of 
the land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles R. Roy, BLM Oregon/Washington 
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6189.
    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 February 25, 1914, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 418, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 6 N., R. 13 E.,
    Sec. 25, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 40 acres in Klickitat County.

    2. The following described land is included in the Klickitat Wild 
and Scenic River System withdrawal and will remain closed to operation 
of the public land laws, including the mining laws, but not the mineral 
leasing laws.

Willamette Meridian

    That portion of land lying within \1/4\ mile of the bank of the 
Klickitat River:

T. 6 N., R. 13 E.,
    Sec. 25, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The area described contains approximately 10 acres in Klickitat 
County.

    3. At 8:30 a.m. on November 27, 1998, the land described in 
paragraph 1, except as provided in paragraph 2, 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 November 27, 1998, shall be 
considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received 
thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    4. The State of Washington has a preference right, as to the land 
referenced in paragraph 3, 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: August 13, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-23054 Filed 8-26-98; 8:45 am]
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