[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 211 (Monday, November 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58750-58751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29255]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 84004]


Public Land Order No. 7371; Opening of Land Under Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.


[[Page 58751]]


ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order opens, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act, 70 acres of National Forest System land 
withdrawn by a Secretarial Order which established Bureau of Land 
Management Powersite Reserve No. 110. This action will permit 
consummation of a pending Forest Service land exchange and retain the 
power rights to the United States. The land is temporarily closed to 
surface entry and mining due to a pending land exchange. The land has 
been and continues to be open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 2, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Sorg, BLM Montana State 
Office, P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2945.
    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-246, it is ordered as follows:
    At 9 a.m. on November 2, 1998, the following described National 
Forest System land, withdrawn by Secretarial Order dated January 24, 
1910, which established Powersite Reserve No. 110, will be opened to 
disposal by land exchange, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act as specified by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission in determination DVMT-246, and subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, and the requirements of 
applicable law:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 1 S., R. 22 W.,
    Sec. 26, S\1/2\N\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and 
NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 70 acres in Ravalli County.

    Dated: October 26, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-29255 Filed 10-30-98; 8:45 am]
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