[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 244 (Tuesday, December 21, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71467-71468]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32972]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[AZA 78501]


Public Land Order No. 7422; Withdrawal of National Forest System 
Lands for the Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah 
Project; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws approximately 2,795 acres of National 
Forest System lands from location and entry under the United States 
mining laws, for a 20-year period, for the Department of the Interior, 
Central Utah Project Completion Act Office to protect the Diamond Fork 
System, Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. The lands have 
been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 21, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Yardley, BLM Arizona State 
Office, 222 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2203, 602-417-
9437.
    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 
National Forest System lands are hereby withdrawn from location and 
entry under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), but 
not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, to protect the Diamond 
Fork System, Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project:

Salt Lake Meridian

Uinta National Forest

T. 8 S., R. 5 E.,
    Sec. 1;
    Sec. 2, lots 1, 2, 7, and 8;
    Sec. 12, E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 14, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, E\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 21, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 22, NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, 
and N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 29, NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 33, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 2,795 acres in Utah 
County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those land laws governing the use of the National 
Forest System 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 20 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: December 1, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
[FR Doc. 99-32972 Filed 12-20-99; 8:45 am]
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