[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 50894]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19785]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MTM 42163]


Public Land Order No. 7532; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
May 2, 1908; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial Order in its entirety as to 
50.00 acres of National Forest System land withdrawn for a Forest 
Service administrative site. The land is no longer needed for this 
purpose and the revocation is needed to facilitate a U.S. Army, Corps 
of Engineers' wetlands mitigation project. This action will open the 
land to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National 
Forest System lands and to mining. The land has been and will remain 
open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 5, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron Erickson, U.S. Forest Service, 
Region 1, P.O. Box 7669, Missoula, Montana 59807, (406) 329-3623.

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 Secretarial Order dated May 2, 1908, which withdrew National 
Forest System land for the Swamp Creek Administrative Site, is hereby 
revoked in its entirety as to the following described National Forest 
System land:

Principal Meridian, Montana

Kootenai National Forest

T. 27 N., R. 30 W.,
    Sec. 11, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 12, W\1/2\W\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
    The area described contains 50.00 acres in Lincoln County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on September 5, 2002, the land will be opened to such 
forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System 
lands, including 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 land described in this order 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: July 18, 2002.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Lands and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 02-19785 Filed 8-5-02; 8:45 am]
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