[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 54 (Thursday, March 20, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 13725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6672]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-920; COC-28650]


Public Land Order No. 7558; Opening of National Forest System 
Land Under Section 24 of the Federal Power Act; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order opens, subject to the provisions of section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act, 54.88 acres of National Forest System land 
withdrawn by a Secretarial Order which established Bureau of Land 
Management Power Site Classification No. 372. This action will permit 
consummation of pending land disposal and retain the power rights to 
the United States. The land has been and will remain open to mineral 
leasing and, under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights 
Restoration Act of 1955, to mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 21, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7093, (303) 
239-3706.

Order

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by section 24 of the Act of June 10, 1920, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 
(1994), and pursuant to the determination of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission in DVCO-560-000, it is ordered as follows:
    At 9 a.m. on April 21, 2003, the following described National 
Forest System land withdrawn by the Secretarial Order dated October 31, 
1944, which established Power Site Classification No. 372, will be 
opened to disposal, subject to the provisions of section 24 of the 
Federal Power Act as specified by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission determination DVCO-560-000, and subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of 
record, and the requirements of applicable law:

Roosevelt National Forest

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 1 S., R. 73 W.,
    sec. 35, lots 21, 22, and 23.
    The area described contains 54.88 acres in Gilpin County.

    Dated: March 5, 2003.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 03-6672 Filed 3-19-03; 8:45 am]
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