[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 246 (Thursday, December 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 72100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33374]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[COC-28627]


Public Land Order No. 7424; Opening of Lands Under Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order opens, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act, 42.90 acres of National Forest System lands 
withdrawn by a Secretarial order which established the Bureau of Land 
Management's Power Site Classification No. 88. This action will permit 
consummation of pending Forest Service land exchanges and retain the 
waterpower rights to the United States. The lands have been and will 
continue to be open to mineral leasing and, under the provisions of the 
Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, to mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 24, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7093, 303-239-
3706.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 
(1994), and pursuant to the determinations of the Federal Regulatory 
Commission in DVCO-549-000 and DVCO-549-001, it is ordered as follows:
    1. At 9 a.m. on January 24, 2000, the following described National 
Forest System lands withdrawn by Secretarial Order dated February 24, 
1925, which established Power Site Classification No. 88, will be 
opened to disposal subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the 
Federal Power Act as specified by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission determinations DVCO-549-000 and DVCO-549-001, and subject to 
valid existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law:

Sixth Principal Meridian

Arapaho National Forest

T. 4 S., R. 78 W.,
    sec. 26, lot 15.
T. 2 S., R. 80 W.,
    sec. 13, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 42.90 acres in Summit County.

    Dated: December 7, 1999.
Kevin Gover,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-33374 Filed 12-22-99; 8:45 am]
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