[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 17898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8289]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-935; COC-23841]


Public Land Order No. 7442; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
5718; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order extends Public Land Order No. 5718, which withdrew 
approximately 1,365 acres of National Forest System land from mining, 
for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary to 
continue the protection of the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel on 
Interstate Highway 70. The land has been and remains open to Forest 
management and to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 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 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. 5718, which withdrew 1,365 acres, more or 
less, of land in the White River National Forest from location and 
entry under the United States mining laws for the protection of the 
Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel on Interstate Highway 70, is hereby 
extended for an additional 20-year period.
    2. 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.

    Dated: March 21, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-8289 Filed 4-4-00; 8:45 am]
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