[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 136 (Friday, July 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43780-43781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17855]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WY-921-1430-ET; WYW 67917]


Public Land Order No. 7458; Revocation of Bureau of Land 
Management Order Dated August 17, 1948, Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes, in its entirety, a Bureau of Land 
Management order insofar as it affects 7,016.29 acres of public lands 
withdrawn for the Bureau of Reclamation's Missouri Basin Project, Big 
Horn Unit No. 3. The lands are no longer needed for reclamation 
purposes. Of the lands included in this revocation, 4,536.29 acres will 
not be opened to surface entry and mining until the completion of a 
planning review. These lands have been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing. The remaining 2,480 acres have been conveyed out of Federal 
ownership and the revocation on this portion is a record-clearing 
action only.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 14, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Booth, BLM Wyoming State Office, 
5353 N. Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828 (MS-921), Cheyenne, Wyoming 
82003, 307-775-6124.
    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. Bureau of Land Management Order dated August 17, 1948, which 
withdrew the following described lands for the Bureau of Reclamation's 
Missouri Basin Project, Big Horn Unit 3, is hereby revoked in its 
entirety:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 49 N., R. 92 W.,
    Secs. 7, 18, 19, 30, and 31.
T. 49 N., R. 93 W.,
    Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, 
and S\1/2\SE\1/4\
Secs. 13, 24, 25, and 36.

    The areas described aggregate 7,016.29 acres in Big Horn County.

    2. The following described public lands, which are included in 
paragraph 1, will not be opened to until a planning review and analysis 
are completed to determine if any of these lands need special 
designation and protection or have exchange potential:

Sixth Principal Meridian

    T. 49 N., R. 92 W.,
    Sec. 18, lots 6 to 9, inclusive;

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    Sec. 19, lots 5 to 13, inclusive;
    Sec. 30, lots 5 to 18, inclusive;
    Sec. 31, lots 5 to 15, inclusive.
    T. 49 N., R. 93 W.,
    Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, 
and S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Secs. 13, 24, 25, and 36.
    The area described contains 4,536.29 acres in Big Horn County.

    3. The remaining lands, which comprise 2,480 acres, have been 
conveyed out of Federal ownership and this is a record-clearing action 
only. A more specific legal description of these private lands may be 
obtained by contacting the address or phone number listed above.

    Dated: June 26, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-17855 Filed 7-13-00; 8:45 am]
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