[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 63941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26249]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-960-1430-ET; MIES-12614, MIES-50201]


Public Land Order No. 7544; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
October 16, 1866; Michigan

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety, an Executive Order which 
reserved 857.62 acres of public lands for use by the United States 
Coast Guard for the Gull Rock and Big Sable Lighthouses. The 
reservation is no longer needed. This action will open 57.5 acres to 
surface entry. The remaining lands have either been conveyed out of 
Federal ownership or have been declared as excess property and reported 
to the General Services Administration.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed Ruda, BLM Eastern States Office, 
7450 Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153, (703) 440-1663.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands occupied by Gull Rock Lighthouse 
reservation have been determined to be unsuitable for return to public 
domain status and have been reported as excess property to the General 
Services Administration. All other lands, except those described in 
Paragraph 2 below, have been conveyed out of Federal ownership.

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. The Executive Order dated October 16, 1866, which reserved 
857.62 acres of public lands for lighthouse purposes, is hereby revoked 
in its entirety.
    2. At 10 a.m. on November 15, 2002, the following described land 
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 10 a.m. 
on November 15, 2002, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at 
that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order 
of filing.

Michigan Meridian

T. 19 N., R. 18 W.,
    Sec. 7, S\1/2\ lot 1 and lot 2.
    The area described contains 57.5 acres in Mason County as shown 
by the May 28, 1839 survey plat.

    Dated: October 1, 2002.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 02-26249 Filed 10-15-02; 8:45 am]
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