[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19792-19793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9020]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-935-1430-ET; COC-28584, COC-28576, COC-28620]


Public Land Order No. 7441; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Orders Which Established Power Site Reserve No. 92 and Power Site 
Classification No. 32; Opening of Land 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 revokes two Secretarial orders insofar as they 
affect 1,910.36 acres of public lands withdrawn for the Bureau of Land 
Management's Power Site Reserve No. 92 and Power Site Classification 
No. 32. This order also opens, subject to Section 24 of the Federal 
Power Act, 7 acres of National Forest System land in Power Site Reserve 
No. 32 to disposal. These actions will allow for consummation of 
pending land exchanges. All the lands have been open to mineral leasing 
and, under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act 
of 1955, to mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 12, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076, 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. The Secretarial Orders dated December 30, 1909, and April 29, 
1922, which established Power Site Reserve No. 92 and Power Site 
Classification No. 32, respectively, are hereby revoked insofar as they 
affect the following described public lands:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 49 N., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 10, E\1/2\SW\1/4\ and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\E\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, 
SW\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 14, N\1/2\;
    Sec. 15, N\1/2\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NW\1/
4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, E\1/2\NE\1/4\.
T. 49 N., R. 10 E.,
    Sec. 19, lots 3, 9, 10, and lots 12 to 15, inclusive, NW\1/
4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\, 
SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 30, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 50 N., R. 8 E.,
    Sec. 10, NE\1/4\ and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 14, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 16, W\1/2\NE\1/4\.
T. 50 N., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 19, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\ and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, N\1/2\NE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 1,910.36 acres in Fremont and 
Chaffee Counties.

    2. At 9 a.m. on May 12, 2000, the lands described in paragraph 1, 
will be opened to the operation of the public land laws generally, 
subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing 
withdrawals, and the requirements of applicable law. All valid 
applications received on or prior to 9 a.m on May 12, 2000, shall be 
considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received 
thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    3. The State of Colorado has waived their preference right for 
public highway or material sites as provided by

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the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1994).
    4. The lands described in paragraph 1 have been open to mining 
under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 
1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994). However, since the act applies only to 
lands withdrawn for power purposes, provisions of the act are no longer 
applicable. The lands have been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing.
    5. 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 determination by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission in DVCO-553-000, it is ordered as follows:
    At 9 a.m. on May 12, 2000, the following described National Forest 
System land withdrawn by the Secretarial Order dated July 2, 1910, 
which established Power Site Reserve No. 32, will be opened to such 
forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System 
lands, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the Federal Power Act 
as specified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission determination 
DVCO-553-000 and subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the 
requirements of applicable law:

Roosevelt National Forest

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 4 S., R. 78W.,
    Sec. 26, that portion of lot 16 west of Highway No. 9.

    The area described contains 7 acres of National Forest System 
land in Summit County.

    6. The land described in paragraph 5 has been and will remain open 
to mineral leasing and to location and entry under the provisions of 
the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994).

    Dated: March 21, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
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