[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 44355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-19124]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NDM-88114]


Public Land Order No. 7577; Transfer of Jurisdiction; North 
Dakota

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order transfers jurisdiction of 640 acres of public land 
within the boundary of the Little Missouri National Grasslands to the 
United States Forest Service.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 28, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Sorg, BLM Montana State 
Office, P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107-6800, 406-896-5045, or 
Douglas Burger, BLM North Dakota Field Office, 2933 Third Avenue West, 
Dickinson, North Dakota 58601-2619, 701-227-7703.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a transfer of surface estate only. 
The land has been and shall remain open to mining, mineral and 
geothermal leasing, and mineral material sales.

Order

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by Section 204 of the Federal Land and Policy Management Act of 1976, 
43 U.S.C. 1714 (1994) it is ordered as follows:
    Subject to valid existing rights, jurisdiction of the following 
described land within the boundary of the Little Missouri National 
Grasslands, is hereby transferred to the United States Forest Service, 
to be managed as National Grasslands:

Fifth Principal Meridian, North Dakota

T. 141 N., R. 101 W.,
    Sec. 10.
    The area described contains 640 acres in Billings County.

    Dated: July 11, 2003.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 03-19124 Filed 7-25-03; 8:45 am]
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