[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 136 (Wednesday, July 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42127-42128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17929]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-958-1430-ET; HAG-03-0087; OR-16756]


Public Land Order No. 7572; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
6476; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order extends Public Land Order No. 6476 for an 
additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary to continue the 
protection of the Wheeler Creek Research Natural Area.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 5, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roger Mendenhall, Siskiyou National 
Forest, PO Box 440, Grants Pass, Oregon

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97528, 541-471-6521, or Chuck Roy, Bureau of Land Management, PO Box 
2965, Portland Oregon 97208, 503-808-6189.

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. Public Land Order No. 6476, (48 FR 45395, October 5, 1983) which 
withdrew 334 acres of National Forest System land in the Siskiyou 
National Forest from the United States mining laws for the protection 
of the Wheeler Creek Research Natural Area, is hereby extended for an 
additional 20-year period.
    2. Public Land Order No. 6476 will expire on October 4, 2023, 
unless as a result of a review conducted prior to 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 be extended.

    Dated: June 23, 2003.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 03-17929 Filed 7-15-03; 8:45 am]
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