[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62812-62813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-25578]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-010-1430-ET; FL-ES-051481]


Public Land Order No. 7542; Transfer of Jurisdiction; Florida

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order modifies the Executive Order dated January 9, 1838 
and transfers the administrative jurisdiction of 49.83 acres of land 
located at the Pensacola Naval Air Station from the Department of the 
Navy to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the expansion and 
operation of the Barrancas National Cemetery.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 8, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duane Winters, Jackson Field Office, 
411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 404, Jackson, Mississippi 39206, 601-977-
5403.

Order

    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 Executive Order dated 
January 9, 1838, which withdrew public domain land for the benefit of 
the United States Navy, is hereby modified to transfer administrative 
jurisdiction of the following described land from the Department of the 
Navy to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to manage as part of the 
National Cemetery System:

Tallahassee Meridian

T. 3 S., R. 30W.,
    Tract 6.
    The area described contains 49.83 acres in Escambia County.
    2. The land described in Paragraph 1 remains withdrawn from all 
forms of appropriation and disposition under the public land laws, 
including the mining laws, but not from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws.


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    Dated: September 13, 2002.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 02-25578 Filed 10-7-02; 8:45 am]
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