[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 57 (Thursday, March 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14462-14463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7296]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 86164]


Public Land Order No.7381; Withdrawal of Public Land for 
Protection of the Crystal Cave Area; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 174.48 acres of public land from surface 
entry and mining for a period of 50 years to protect the unique and 
significant geologic resources of the Crystal Cave area. The land has 
been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 25, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
PO Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949, or Loretta Park, 
BLM Lewistown Field Office, Box 1160, Lewistown, Montana 59457, 406-
538-7461.
    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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described land 
is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location or entry under the 
general land laws, including the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. 
Ch. 2 (1994)), but not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, for 
the Bureau of Land Management to protect the unique and significant 
geologic resources of the Crystal Cave area:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 16 N., R. 19 E.,
    Sec. 15, lot 15, lots 25 to 28, inclusive, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and 
MS 9204;
    Sec. 16, MS 5974.

    The area described contains 174.48 acres in Fergus County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 50 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review conducted before the 
expiration date pursuant to section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) (1994), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.


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    Dated: March 12, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-7296 Filed 3-24-99; 8:45 am]
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