[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 174 (Thursday, September 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 54297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22855]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-930-1430-ET; COC-1269; COC-28334]


Public Land Order No. 7461; Partial Revocation of Oil Shale 
Withdrawals; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive order and a public 
land order insofar as they affect 753.38 acres of public lands 
withdrawn for the protection of oil shale values. This order also 
partially revokes the Executive order establishing Naval Oil Shale 
Reserve No. 3 insofar as it affects 73.38 acres of public land. These 
revocations will allow for disposal of the lands by exchange. The lands 
have been and will remain open to mineral leasing. The lands continue 
to be segregated by an overlapping exchange proposal.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 10, 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. Executive Order No. 5327 and Public Land Order No. 4522, which 
withdrew oil shale deposits and the lands containing such deposits for 
the protection of oil shale and associated values, are hereby revoked 
insofar as they affect the following described public land:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T., 4 S., R. 95 W.,
    Sec. 22, W\1/2\;
    Sec. 23, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\ and E\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 34, SW\1/4\.
T. 5 S., R. 95 W.,
    Sec. 4, lots 5 and 7.
T. 5 S., R. 96 W.,
    Sec. 15, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 6 S., R. 96 W.,
    Sec. 21, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

The areas described aggregate 753.38 acres in Garfield County.

    2. The Executive Order dated September 27, 1924, which established 
Naval Oil Shale Reserve No. 3, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects 
the following described public lands:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 5 S., R. 95 W.,
    Sec. 4, lots 5 and 7.

The area described contains 73.38 acres in Garfield County.

    3. At 9 a.m. on October 10, 2000, the lands described in Paragraphs 
l and 2, will be opened to the operation of the public land laws 
generally, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing 
withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the requirements of 
applicable law. All valid applications received at or prior to 9 a.m. 
on October 10, 2000, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing.

    Dated: August 11, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-22855 Filed 9-6-00; 8:45 am]
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