[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 236 (Monday, December 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72969-72970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-30987]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-930-1430-ET; COC-28504]


Public Land Order No. 7548; Partial Revocation of Executive Order 
No. 5672; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive Order which withdrew 
lands in Colorado and Wyoming for Public Water Reserve No. 143. This 
order only affects lands in Colorado and opens 209.61 acres to the 
operation of the public land laws and to nonmetalliferous location and 
entry under the United States mining laws. The lands have been and will 
remain open to mineral leasing and to metalliferous mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 8, 2003.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands do not contain a water source and 
one of the parcels has been identified for disposal.

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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. Executive Order No. 5672, dated August 3, 1931, which withdrew 
lands for Public Water Reserve No. 143, is hereby revoked insofar as it 
affects the following described lands:

Sixth Principal Meridian

    T. 8 N., R. 97 W., sec. 1, W\1/2\SW\1/4\; sec. 2, N\1/2\SE\1/4\; 
sec. 29, lots 17, 25, 26, 29, and 30 (previously lots 8 and 9).

    The areas described aggregate 209.61 acres in Moffat County, 
Colorado.
    2. At 9 a.m. on January 8, 2003, the lands described in paragraph 1 
will be opened to 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 9 a.m. on January 8, 2003, 
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 January 8, 2003, the lands 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 lands 
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: November 20, 2002.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 02-30987 Filed 12-6-02; 8:45 am]
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