[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 35179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16616]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UT-942-1430-01; UTU 08463, UTU 53990, UTU 010096, UTU 42889]


Public Land Order No. 7395; Revocation of Public Land Order Nos. 
494, 565, 983, and 1011, Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes 4 public land orders in their entirety as 
to the remaining 3,055.62 acres of public and National Forest System 
lands withdrawn for use by the Atomic Energy Commission. The lands are 
no longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn and the 
Department of Energy, formerly the Atomic Energy Commission, has 
requested that the withdrawals be revoked. This action will return 
95.62 acres to Bureau of Land Management administration and open them 
to surface entry and mining and will return 2,960 acres to National 
Forest administration and will open them to mining and to such forms of 
disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System lands. All 
of the lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 30, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brad Groesbeck, BLM Moab Field Office, 
82 East Dogwood Drive, Moab, Utah 84532, 435-259-2115.
    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. Public Land Order Nos. 494 and 565, which withdrew public lands 
for use by the Atomic Energy Commission, are hereby revoked in their 
entirety as to the following described lands:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 37 S., R. 21 E.,
    Sec. 3, E\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 24 S., R. 25 E.,
    Sec. 34.

    The areas described aggregate 95.62 acres in Grand and San Juan 
Counties.

    2. Public Land Order Nos. 983 and 1011, which withdrew National 
Forest System lands for use by the Atomic Energy Commission, are hereby 
revoked in their entirety as to the following described lands:

Salt Lake Meridian

Manti-La Sal National Forest

T. 36 S., R 10 E.,
    Sec. 18, W\1/2\;
    Sec. 19, W\1/2\.
T. 36 S., R. 18 E.,
    Secs. 13, 23, and 24;
    Sec. 25, N\1/2\.
T. 28 S., R. 26 E.,
    Sec. 29, S\1/2\NE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 2,960 acres in San Juan County.

    3. At 10 a.m. on July 30, 1999, the lands described in Paragraph 1 
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 10 a.m. 
on July 30, 1999, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that 
time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order of 
filing.
    4. At 10 a.m. on July 30, 1999, the lands described in Paragraph 1 
and Paragraph 2 will be opened to location and entry under the United 
States mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the 
requirements of applicable law. Appropriation of any of the lands 
described in this order under the general mining laws prior to the date 
and time of restoration is unauthorized. Any such attempted 
appropriation, including attempted adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 
38 (1994), shall vest no rights against the United States. Acts 
required to establish a location and to initiate a right of possession 
are governed by State law where not in conflict with Federal law. The 
Bureau of Land Management will not intervene in disputes between rival 
locators over possessory rights since Congress has provided for such 
determination in local courts.
    5. At 10 a.m. on July 30, 1999, the lands described in Paragraph 2 
will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of 
National Forest System lands, subject to valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law.

    Dated: June 11, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-16616 Filed 6-29-99; 8:45 am]
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