[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 28211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13182]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0064; OR-19112]


Public Land Order No. 7391; Revocation of Executive Order dated 
November 14, 1917; Oregon

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 16 
acres of public lands withdrawn for Bureau of Land Management Powersite 
Reserve No. 658. The lands are no longer needed for the purpose for 
which they were withdrawn. This action will open 11.50 acres to surface 
entry. These lands have been and will remain open to mining. The 
remaining 4.50 acres are included in an overlapping withdrawal and will 
remain closed to surface entry and mining. All the lands will remain 
open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 24, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth J. St. Mary, BLM Oregon/
Washington State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 
503-952-6168.
    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 November 14, 1917, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 658, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

Oregon and California Railroad Grant Land
T. 22 S., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 33, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and E\1/2\NW\1/4\, all land lying within 
50 feet of centerline of transmission line.
T. 35 S., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 29, W\1/2\SW\1/4\, all land lying within 50 feet of 
centerline of transmission line.
T. 3 S., R. 3 E.,
    Sec. 29, lot 4, all land lying within 50 feet of centerline of 
transmission line.
T. 2 S., R. 4 E.,
    Sec. 1, that portion of Tract 37 lying within the NE\1/4\NW\1/
4\.

    The areas aggregate approximately 16 acres in Clackamas, Douglas, 
and Josephine Counties.
    2. That portion of Tract 37 in the NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ of sec. 1, T. 2 
S., R. 4 E., lying within the boundary of Power Project No. 477, 
remains closed to operation of the public land laws, including the 
mining laws.
    3. At 8:30 a.m. on August 24, 1999, the lands described in 
paragraph 1, except as provided in paragraph 2, will be opened to such 
forms of disposition as may by law be made of Revested Oregon and 
California Railroad Grant Lands, 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 August 24, 1999, shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Applications received thereafter 
shall be considered in the order of filing.
    4. The State of Oregon has a preference right as to the lands 
referenced in paragraph 3 for public highway rights-of-way or material 
sites for a period of 90 days from 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 section 24 of 
the Act of June 10, 1920, as amended 43 U.S.C. 818 (1994).

    Dated: May 7, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-13182 Filed 5-24-99; 8:45 am]
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