[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 61 (Wednesday, March 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7668]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-958-1820-01; GP0-0107; OR-06519]


Public land order No. 7438; Revocation of Public Land Order No. 
2407; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety the remaining 2,230 acres 
withdrawn by Public Land Order No. 2407. The original order withdrew 
National Forest System lands as a roadside zone. The lands are no 
longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. Of the 
lands being revoked, 225 acres are within an overlapping Forest Service 
withdrawal and will remain closed to surface entry, mining, and mineral 
leasing. The revocation is needed to make lands available for several 
land tenure adjustments in accordance with the provisions of Section 
206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. This action 
will open the lands to such forms of disposition as may by law be made 
of National Forest System lands and to mining, subject to valid 
existing rights. The lands have been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Barnes, BLM Oregon/Washington 
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.
    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 No. 2407 dated June 21, 1961, which withdrew 
National Forest System lands for road side zone purposes, is hereby 
revoked in its entirety as to the remaining withdrawn lands described 
in the order published in Federal Register Volume 26 page 5756, dated 
June 28, 1961.
    2. At 8:30 a.m. on April 28, 2000, the lands shall be opened to 
such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest 
System lands, 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 laws. Appropriation of lands 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 the 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: March 10, 2000.
Kevin Gover,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-7668 Filed 3-28-00; 8:45 am]
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