[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 194 (Thursday, October 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59462-59463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25585]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT-924-1430-ET; MTM 89002]


Public Land Order No. 7463; Withdrawal of Public Land for Devil's 
Elbow Recreation Site; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 100.81 acres of public land from surface 
entry and mining for a period of 20 years for protection and 
development of a Bureau of Land Management public campground and day 
use recreation area. The land has been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 5, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-2949, or Susie 
Williams, BLM Butte Field Office, P.O. Box 3388, Butte, Montana 59702-
3388, 406-494-7634.
    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 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is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location or entry under the 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)), but not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, for 
protection and development of Devil's Elbow Recreation Site:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 11 N., R. 2 W.,
    Sec. 23, that portion of the E\1/2\NE\1/4\ lying east of the 
York Road (State Highway 280) as set out on the Certificate of 
Survey (COS) filed under Document No. 259800 and tracts 7 and 8 as 
set out on the COS filed under Document No. 452285/T;

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    Sec. 24, tracts 4 and 5 as set out on the COS filed under 
Document 452285/T, and tract 6-A as set out on the COS filed under 
Document No. 464941/B.

    The area described contains 100.81 acres in Lewis and Clark 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 their 
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: September 18, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-25585 Filed 10-4-00; 8:45 am]
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