[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 180 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 49710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24938]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[ID-933-1430-00; IDI-15613 et al.]


Public Land Order No. 7363; Revocation of 4 Executive Orders, 3 
Secretarial Orders, and 1 Geological Survey Order; Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes 4 Executive orders, 3 Secretarial orders, 
and 1 Geological Survey order insofar as they affect 8,597.76 acres of 
lands withdrawn for certain Bureau of Land Management Powersite 
Classifications and Reserves in the State of Idaho. Of the lands being 
revoked, 3,634.85 acres will be opened to surface entry. The remaining 
4,962.91 acres will remain closed to surface entry and mining due to 
overlapping withdrawals or the lands having been conveyed out of 
Federal ownership. All of the lands containing Federally owned minerals 
have been and will remain open to mineral leasing. The lands still in 
Federal ownership and not overlapped by other withdrawals, have been 
and will remain open to mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 19, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry R. Lievsay, BLM Idaho State 
Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709, 208-373-3864. A copy 
of the legal description of the lands involved is available from this 
location.
    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 following 4 Executive orders, 3 Secretarial orders, and 1 
Geological Survey order are hereby revoked insofar as they affect the 
lands described in the orders referenced below:
    (a) Executive Order dated May 19, 1913, Powersite Reserve No. 358 
(IDI-15613);
    (b) Executive Order dated May 6, 1919, Powersite Reserve No. 725 
(IDI-15619);
    (c) Secretarial Order dated December 14, 1926, Powersite 
Classification No. 160 (IDI-15688);
    (d) Secretarial Order dated May 12, 1941, Powersite Classification 
No. 325 (IDI-15695);
    (e) Secretarial Order dated August 2, 1927, Powersite 
Classification No. 186 (IDI-15711);
    (f) Geological Survey Order dated April 18, 1957, Powersite 
Classification No. 440 (IDI-15797);
    (g) Executive Order dated November 5, 1916, Powersite Reserve No. 
552 (IDI-21014);
    (h) Executive Order dated September 22, 1917, Powersite Reserve No. 
638 (IDI-21015);
    The areas within the above Secretarial orders, Executive orders, 
and Geological Survey order aggregate 8,597.76 acres in Elmore, Boise, 
Fremont, Bonneville, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Custer, and Lemhi Counties.
    2. At 9 a.m. on October 19, 1998, the lands referenced in paragraph 
1, except those lands overlapped by other withdrawals or conveyed out 
of Federal ownership, 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 October 19, 1998, shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be 
considered in the order of filing.

    Dated: August 28, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-24938 Filed 9-16-98; 8:45 am]
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