[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 97 (Thursday, May 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 31597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12478]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-958-1430-ET; GP0-0014; OR-54087]


Public Land Order No. 7446; Withdrawal of Public Lands for the 
Desert Springs Seed Orchard; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 80 acres of public land from surface 
entry and mining for a period of 50 years and transfers administrative 
jurisdiction to the Forest Service to protect its investment in the 
development of a seed orchard. The land has been and will remain open 
to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 18, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles R. Roy, BLM Oregon/Washington 
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6189.
    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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), to protect the proposed investment of Federal 
funds and related facilities for the Forest Service's Desert Springs 
Seed Orchard:

Willamette Meridian

T. 33 S., R. 18 E.,
Sec. 11, E\1/2\SE\1/4\.
    The area described contains 80 acres in Lake County.
    2. Administrative jurisdiction of the land described in Paragraph 2 
is hereby transferred to the Forest Service.
    3. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the land 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of its 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    4. This withdrawal will expire 50 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: May 4, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-12478 Filed 5-17-00; 8:45 am]
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