[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 135 (Thursday, July 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 38212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-18081]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-924-1430-01; MTM 023270, et al.]


Public Land Order No. 7400; Partial Revocation of Executive Order 
Dated July 12, 1911, Secretarial Order Dated March 18, 1918, and Public 
Land Order No. 2760; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive order, a Secretarial order, 
and a public land order (PLO) insofar as they affect 801.64 acres of 
public lands withdrawn for the Bureau of Land Management's Reservoir 
Site Reserve No. 4 and Stock Driveway No. 11, Montana 1, and the Bureau 
of Reclamation's Missouri River Basin Project. The lands are no longer 
needed for these purposes and the revocations are needed to permit 
disposal of the lands through exchange. The lands are temporarily 
closed to surface entry and mining due to pending land exchange 
proposals. The lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949.
    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. a. The Executive order dated July 12, 1911, which withdrew 
public lands for the Bureau of Land Management's Reservoir Site Reserve 
No. 4, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following-described 
lands:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 14 S., R. 4 W.,
    Sec. 5, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 7, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and N\1/2\S\1/2\.

    The area described contains 280 acres in Beaverhead County.

    b. The Secretarial order dated March 18, 1918, which withdrew 
public land for the Bureau of Land Management's Stock Driveway No. 11, 
Montana No. 1, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following-
described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 8 S., R. 7 W.,
    Sec. 23, SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 26, E\1/2\.

    The area described contains 480 acres in Madison County.

    c. PLO No. 2760, which withdrew public lands for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's East Bench Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin 
Reclamation Project, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the 
following-described land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 5 S., R. 6 W.,
    Sec. 6, lot 1.

    The area described contains 41.64 acres in Madison County.

    2. The lands described in paragraph 1(a), 1(b), and 1(c) are hereby 
made available for exchange under section 206 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1716 (1994).

    Dated: July 1, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-18081 Filed 7-14-99; 8:45 am]
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