[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 6663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1817]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NMNM 103446]


Public Land Order No. 7479; Withdrawal of National Forest System 
Land for Guadalupe Cave Resource Protection Area; New Mexico

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 27,299.50 acres of National Forest System 
land from mining and mineral leasing, for 20 years to protect the 
Guadalupe Cave Resource Protection Area.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 22, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanette Espinosa, BLM New Mexico 
State Office, P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502-0115, 505-438-
7597.
    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 
National Forest System land is hereby withdrawn from location and entry 
under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), and from 
leasing under the mineral leasing laws (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq. and 30 
U.S.C. 351 et seq. (1994)), to protect the Guadalupe Cave Resource 
Protection Area.:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

Lincoln National Forest

T. 25 S., R. 21 E.,
    Sec. 36, lot 4, S\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 26 S., R. 21 E.,
    Sec. 1;
    Sec. 2, E\1/2\;
    Sec. 10, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, E\1/2\ and SW\1/4\;
    Secs. 12, 13, and 14;
    Sec. 15, E\1/2\, S\1/2\ NW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 16, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, SE\1/4\;
    Secs. 21 to 28, inclusive;
    Sec. 29, E\1/2\;
    Sec. 32, lots 1 and 2, and N\1/2\ NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 33, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and N\1/2\N\1/2\;
    Sec. 34, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and N\1/2\N\1/2\;
    Sec. 35, lots 1 to 4 inclusive, and N\1/2\N\1/2\;
    Sec. 36, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and N\1/2\N\1/2\.
T. 25 S., R. 22 E.,
    Sec. 13, S\1/2\;
    Sec. 14, S\1/2\;
    Sec. 15, S\1/2\ and NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 16, S\1/2\ and NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\ and SE\1/4\; secs. 21 to 29, inclusive;
    Sec. 31, E\1/2\, E\1/2\W\1/2\, and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, 33, and 34.
T. 26 S., R. 22 E., secs. 3, 4, and 5;
    Sec. 6, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, E\1/2\, and E\1/2\W\1/2\;
    Sec. 7, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, E\1/2\, and E\1/2\W\1/2\; secs. 
8, 9, 10, 15, 16, and 17;
    Sec. 18, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, E\1/2\, and E\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The area described contains approximately 27,299.50 acres in 
Eddy County.

    2. 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: January 16, 2001.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
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