[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 90 (Thursday, May 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31367-31368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11575]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-958-1430-ET; GPO-02-047; OR-19228]


Public Land Order No. 7523; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
November 13, 1889; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive Order in its entirety as to 
the remaining 313.77 acres of lands withdrawn for the U.S. Army, Corps 
of Engineers' Coos Bay and Harbor Improvement Project. The lands are no 
longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. This 
action will open the lands to surface entry. The lands have been and 
will remain open to mineral leasing. The lands are within the Bureau of 
Land Management's Coos Bay North Spit Special Recreation Management 
Area and would remain closed to mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 10, 2002.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles R. Roy, BLM Oregon/ Washington 
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-808-6189.

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 November 13, 1889, which withdrew 
lands for the Corps of Engineers' Coos Bay and Harbor Improvement 
Project, is hereby revoked in its entirety as to the following 
described public lands:

Willamette Meridian

T. 25 S., R. 13 W.,
    Sec. 18, lot 8, fractional W\1/2\NW\1/4\, and fractional NW\1/
4\SW\1/4\.
T. 25 S., R. 14 W.,
    Sec. 13, lots 1, 2, and E\1/2\SE\1/4\.
    The areas described aggregate approximately 313.77 acres in Coos 
County.

    2. At 8:30 a.m. on June 10, 2002, the lands described in paragraph 
1 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 8:30 
a.m. on June 10, 2002, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing.
    3. The lands described in paragraph 1 are within the Bureau of Land 
Management's North Spit Special Recreation Management Area and will 
remain withdrawn from location and entry under the United States mining 
laws pursuant to Public Land Order No. 7436, 65 FR 15920 (March 24, 
2000).

    Dated: April 23, 2002.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 02-11575 Filed 5-8-02; 8:45 am]
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