[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 246 (Thursday, December 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 72099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33375]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[AZA 13441, AZAR 035063, AZA 13014, AZA 30075]


Public Land Order No. 7426; Revocation of Bureau of Reclamation 
Order dated March 17, 1952, Partial Revocation of Public Land Order No. 
4172, and Partial Revocation of Secretarial Order dated July 2, 1902; 
Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Bureau of Reclamation order in its 
entirety, and partially revokes a public land order and a Secretarial 
order insofar as they affect 1,818.20 acres of National Forest System 
lands withdrawn for the Orme Dam and Reservoir Project, State Highway 
87 Roadside Zone, and Salt River Survey. The lands are no longer needed 
for the purposes for which they were withdrawn and the revocations are 
needed to accommodate a proposed Forest Service land exchange. Of the 
1,818.20 acres being revoked, 599.28 acres are temporarily closed by 
the proposed exchange and 957.82 acres are included within other 
existing Bureau of Reclamation withdrawals. The remaining 261.10 acres 
will be opened 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: January 24, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Yardley, BLM Arizona State 
Office, 222 North Central Ave., 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. The Bureau of Reclamation Order dated March 17, 1952, which 
withdrew lands for the Bureau of Reclamation's Orme Dam and Reservoir 
Project, is hereby revoked in its entirety. The area involved contains 
1,806.62 acres, plus the area between the meanders of the left and 
right bank of the Verde River, in Maricopa County, as shown on the 
plats of survey officially filed July 29, 1964.
    2. Public Land Order No. 4172 and the Secretarial Order dated July 
2, 1902, which withdrew lands for State Highway 87 Roadside Zone, and 
Salt River Survey respectively, are hereby revoked insofar as they 
affect the following described lands:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

Tonto National Forest

T. 3 N., R. 7 E.,
    sec. 27, lots 2, 3, and 5;
    sec. 28, lots 13 and 15.
T. 4 N., R. 7 E.,
    sec. 27, lot 13.

    The areas described aggregate 51.62 acres in Maricopa County.
    3. The lands described in Paragraph 2, and the following described 
lands are hereby made available for exchange under the General Exchange 
Act of 1922:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

Tonto National Forest

T. 3 N., R.7 E.,
    sec. 16, lots 9 to 12, inclusive;
    sec. 21, lots 9 to 12, inclusive, and E\1/2\E\1/2\;
    sec. 22, W\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The lands made available for exchange aggregate 631.71 acres in 
Maricopa County.
    4. At 10 a.m. on January 24, 2000, the land described below shall 
be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of 
National Forest System land, including 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:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

Tonto National Forest

T. 3 N., R. 7 E.,
    sec. 27, lot 6, and SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    sec. 28, lots 10, 11, 14, and 16, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NE\1/
4\SE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 261.10 acres in Maricopa County.
    Appropriation of 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 determinations in local courts.

    Dated: December 14, 1999.
Kevin Gover,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-33375 Filed 12-22-99; 8:45 am]
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