[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 127 (Friday, June 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 40690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16602]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-930-1430-ET; COC-61608]


Public Land Order No. 7455; Withdrawal of Public Land for the 
Saguache Smelter Site, Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 60 acres of public land from surface 
entry and mining for a period of 20 years for the Bureau of Land 
Management to protect the Saguache Smelter Site. The land has been and 
will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 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. 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land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 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 Stated mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2, (1994)), but not from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws, for the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Saguache 
Smelter Site:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 45 N., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 26, S\1/2\S\1/2\S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 35, N\1/2\N\1/2\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 60 acres in Saguache County.

    2. 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 the 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. 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: June 7, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-16602 Filed 6-29-00; 8:45 am]
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