[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 20, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27580-27581]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12601]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-930-1430-ET; NVN 73931]


Public Land Order No. 7566; Withdrawal of Public Lands for the 
Rhyolite Historic Site; Nevada

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 277.046 acres of public lands from 
surface entry and mining for a period of 20 years for the Bureau of 
Land Management to protect the Rhyolite historic site. The lands have 
been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 20, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Samuelson, BLM Nevada State 
Office, PO Box 12000, Reno, Nevada 89520, 775-861-6532.

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 following described public 
lands are hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), but not the mineral leasing laws, to protect 
the Rhyolite Historic Site:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 12 S., R. 46 E.,
    Secs. 9, 16, and 21;

    All those certain lots, pieces, or parcels of land situate in 
the County of Nye, State of Nevada, described as follows:
    Parcel 1: The sleeper lode mining claim designated by the 
Surveyor General as Survey No. 3156, embracing a portion of the 
unsurveyed public domain in the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye 
County, Nevada, and bounded and described in that certain Patent 
recorded in Book 395 of Official Records, Page 317 as File No. 
89058, Nye County Nevada Records, which further stipulated that 
portion of ground in said mining claim which is embraced in Sang De 
Cristo lode claim or Survey No. 2472 and also all veins, lodes and 
ledges throughout their entire depth, the tops or apexes of which 
lie inside of such ground are expressly excepted and excluded from 
said land.
    Parcel 2: The Terry Mine, Cyclops and Side Scope lode mining 
claims designated by the Surveyor General as Survey No. 2585, 
embracing a portion of the unsurveyed public domain in the Bullfrog 
Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, and bounded and described in 
that certain Patent recorded in Book 395 of Official Records, Page 
333 as File No. 89062, Nye County, Nevada Records, which further 
stipulated that all that portion of ground described in said mining 
claims which is embraced in Survey Nos. 2422, 2457, and 2583, the 
Trail Fraction and Touch Me Not lode claims, unsurveyed, that 
portion of Survey No. 2384 in conflict with survey No. 2457 and also 
all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the tops 
or apexes of which lie inside of such ground are expressly excepted 
and excluded from said land.
    Parcel 3: The Sang De Cristo lode mining claim designated by the 
surveyor General as Survey No. 2472, embracing a portion of the 
unsurveyed public domain in the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye 
County, Nevada, and bounded and described in that certain Patent 
recorded in Book 395 of Official Records, Page 343 as File No. 
89064, Nye County Nevada Records, which further stipulated that 
portion of ground in said mining claim which is embraced in mining 
claim or Survey 2584, the White Monument lode claim Survey No. 2650, 
and also all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, 
the tops or apexes of which lie inside of such ground are expressly 
excepted and excluded from said land.
    Parcel 4: The White Monument, Bonanza Fraction and Trail 
Fraction lode mining claims designated by the Surveyor General as 
Survey No. 2650, embracing a portion of the unsurveyed public domain 
in the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, and bounded and 
described in that certain Patent recorded in Book 17 of Deeds, Page 
162 as File No. 36763, Nye County Nevada Records, which further 
stipulated that portion of ground in said mining claim which is 
embraced in mining claim or Survey No. 2584, the Terry mine and 
Cyclops lode claims Survey No. 2585, that portion of survey No. 2472 
in conflict with the Bonanza Fraction lode calm and also all veins, 
lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the tops or apexes 
of which lie inside of such ground are expressly excepted and 
excluded from said land.
    Parcel 5: The Golden Sceptre and Golden Sceptre No. 2 lode 
mining claims designated by the Surveyor General as Survey No. 2584, 
embracing a portion of the unsurveyed public domain in the Bullfrog 
Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, and bounded and described in 
that certain Patent recorded in Book 17 of Deeds, Page 169 as File 
No. 36764, Nye County Nevada Records.
    Parcel 6: The Gold Wedge lode mining claim designated by the 
Surveyor General as Survey No. 2583, embracing a portion of the 
unsurveyed public domain in the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye 
County, Nevada, and bounded and described in that certain Patent 
recorded in Book 395 of Official Records, Page 352 as File No. 
89065, Nye County Nevada Records, which further stipulated that 
portion of ground in said mining claim which is embraced in mining 
claims or Surveys 2457, 2487 and 2488 and also all veins, lodes and 
ledges throughout their entire depth, the tops or apexes of which 
lie inside of such ground are expressly excepted and excluded from 
said land.
    Parcel 7: The East half (E\1/2\) of the Northeast quarter (NE\1/
4\) of the Southwest quarter (SW\1/4\) of the Southeast quarter 
(SE\1/4\) of Section 9, Township 12 South, Range 46 East, M.D.B.&M., 
according to the Official Plat of the surveys of said land on file 
in the Office of the Bureau of Land Management.
    Parcel 8: The West half (W\1/2\) of the Northwest quarter (NW\1/
4\) of the Southeast quarter (SE\1/4\) of the Southeast quarter 
(SE\1/4\) of Section 9, Township 12 South, Range 46 East, M.D.B.&M., 
according to the Official Plat of the surveys of said land on file 
in the Office of the Bureau of Land Management.
    Parcel 9: Lots 15, 19 and 40 of Section 9, Township 12 South, 
Range 46 East, M.D.B.&M., according to the Official Plat of the 
surveys of said land on file in the Office of the Bureau of Land 
Management.
    Parcel 10: Lots 1, 19, and 20, and the Northeast (NE\1/4\) 
quarter of the Northeast (NE\1/4\) quarter of Section 16, Township 
12 South, Range 46 East, M.D.B.&M., according to the Official Plat 
of the surveys of said land on file in the Office of the Bureau of 
Land Management.
    Parcel 11: The Southwest quarter (SW\1/4\) of the Southwest 
quarter (SW\1/4\) of the Northeast quarter (NE\1/4\) of the 
Northeast quarter (NE\1/4\), the Southeast quarter (SE\1/4\) of the 
Southeast quarter (SE\1/4\) of the Northwest quarter (NW\1/4\) of 
the Northeast quarter (NE\1/4\), the East half (E\1/2\) of the 
Northeast quarter (NE\1/4\) of the Southwest quarter (SW\1/4\) of 
the Northeast quarter (NE\1/4\), and the West half (W\1/2\) of the 
Northwest quarter (NW\1/4\) of the Southeast quarter (SE\1/4\) of 
the Northeast quarter (NE\1/4\) of Section 21 , Township 12 South, 
Range 46 East, M.D.B.&M., according to the Official Plat of the 
surveys of said land on file in the Office of the Bureau of Land 
Management.

    The areas described aggregate 277.046 acres in Nye County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of the 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 20 years from the effective date of 
this order, unless, as a result of a review

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conducted before the expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) 
(1994), the Secretary determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: April 25, 2003.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 03-12601 Filed 5-19-03; 8:45 am]
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