[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 237 (Friday, December 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77038-77039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31258]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT-924-1430-ET; MTM 89384; Public Land Order No. 7472]


Withdrawal of Public Land on the Beaverhead River; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws approximately 2,244 acres of public land 
from surface entry and mining for a period of 50 years for the Bureau 
of Land Management to protect critical resource values along the 
Beaverhead River. The land has been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 
P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107-6800, 406-896-5052, or Russ 
Sorensen, BLM Dillon Field Office, 1005 Selway Drive, Dillon, Montana 
59725, 406-683-2337.
    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land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 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)), but not from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws, to protect critical resource values along the Beaverhead 
River:

Principal Meridian, Montana

Tract 1
T. 8 S., R. 10 W.,
    Sec. 35, lots 3 and 4, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 9 S., R. 10 W.,
    Sec. 1, lots 6 to 22, inclusive;
    Sec. 2, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S\1/2\N\1/2\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 11, lot 1 and N\1/2\, EXCEPTING THEREFROM that tract of 
land described in the Deed dated June 22, 1946, recorded in Book 110 
of Deeds, Page 263, Records of Beaverhead County, Montana;
    Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, 
NW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, N\1/2\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, EXCEPTING THEREFROM, 
Certificate of Survey 889, all those portions conveyed to the State 
of Montana for State Highway purposes, those portions conveyed for 
railroad purposes, and those portions taken by the Declaration of 
Taking dated September 13, 1960.

Tract 2

    Certificate of Survey 889, which is a parcel of land located in 
the NW\1/4\ of sec. 11, sec. 2, and lots 9 and 10 of sec. 1, T. 9 
S., R. 10 W.
    The area described contains approximately 2,244 acres in 
Beaverhead County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the lands 
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 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

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Secretary determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: November 28, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-31258 Filed 12-7-00; 8:45 am]
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