[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1983-1984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-978]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-930-1430-ET; COC-17320]


Public Land Order No. 7508; Partial Revocation of the Executive 
Order Which Created Public Water Reserve No. 107; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive Order insofar as it 
affects 45.77 acres of public land withdrawn for Bureau of Land 
Management Public Water Reserve No. 107. This action will open 45.77 
acres to surface entry under the public land laws and to 
nonmetalliferous location and entry under the United States mining 
laws. The land has been and will remain open to mineral leasing and to 
metalliferous mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 14, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215, 303-239-3706.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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. The Executive Order dated April 17, 1926, which established 
Public Water Reserve No. 107, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects 
the following described land:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 5 N., R. 81 W.,
    sec. 9, lot 13.

    The area described contains 45.77 acres in Jackson County.
    2. At 9 a.m. on February 14, 2002, the land described in Paragraph 
1 will be opened to the operation of the public land laws generally, 
subject to valid

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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 February 14, 2002, 
shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those 
received thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    3. At 9 a.m. on, February 14, 2002, the land described in Paragraph 
1 will be opened to nonmetalliferous location and entry under the 
United States mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law. Appropriation of any of the land 
described in this order to nonmetalliferous mining under the general 
mining laws prior to the date and time of restoration is unauthorized. 
Any such attempted appropriation, including attempted adverse 
possession under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1994), shall vest no rights against the 
United States. Acts required to establish a location and to initiate a 
right of possession are governed by State law where not in conflict 
with Federal law.
    The Bureau of Land Management will not intervene in disputes 
between rival locators over possessory rights since Congress has 
provided for such determinations in local courts.

    Dated: December 13, 2001.
J. Steven Griles,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-978 Filed 1-14-02; 8:45 am]
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