[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 207 (Monday, October 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61230-61231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-27004]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AZAR 033067]


Public Land Order No. 7588; Partial Revocation of Public Land 
Order No. 3965; Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a public land order insofar as it 
affects approximately 70 acres of National Forest System lands 
withdrawn for the Ferndell, Humboldt Peak Lookout, and Pine 
Administrative Sites. This order opens the National Forest System lands 
to mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 26, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Yardley, BLM Arizona State 
Office, 222 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2203, 602-417-
9437.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Forest Service has determined that a 
withdrawal is no longer needed on the lands described in Paragraph 1 
and has requested the partial revocation. The lands withdrawn for the 
Pine Administrative Site have been conveyed out of Federal ownership 
and this is a record clearing action only for those lands.

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 (2000), it is ordered as follows:
    1. Public Land Order No. 3965, which withdrew National Forest 
System lands for several Forest Service administrative sites, is hereby 
revoked insofar as it affects the following described lands:
Tonto National Forest

Gila and Salt River Meridian

    (a) Ferndell Administrative Site
T. 2 S., R. 15 E.,
    Sec. 5, W\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.

Humboldt Peak Lookout Administrative Site

T. 7 N., R. 5 E.,
    Sec. 1, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/
4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.
    (b) Pine Administrative Site
T. 12 N., R. 8 E.,
    Sec. 36, W\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 70 acres.

    2. At 10 a.m. on November 26, 2003, the lands described in 
Paragraph 1(a) will be opened to location and entry under the United 
States mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals,

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other segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law. 
Appropriation of any of the lands described in this order 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 (2000), 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: October 6, 2003.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 03-27004 Filed 10-24-03; 8:45 am]
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