[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 36 (Thursday, February 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9097-9098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3516]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UTU 50216]


Expiration of Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawal and Opening of 
Lands; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Public Land Order 6550, which withdrew 159.91 acres of 
National Forest System lands from mining for use by the Bureau of 
Reclamation in constructing recreation facilities associated with the 
Upalco

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Unit of the Central Utah Project, has expired. This order opens the 
lands to location and entry under the mining laws.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 28, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rhonda Flynn, BLM Utah State Office, 
324 S. State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111-2303, 801-539-4132.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    1. Public Land Order No. 6550, published in the Federal Register 
July 23, 1984 (49 FR 29599), which withdrew the following described 
National Forest System lands for use by the Bureau of Reclamation in 
constructing recreation facilities associated with the Upalco Unit of 
the Central Utah Project, expired by operation of law on July 22, 2004.

Ashley National Forest

Uintah Special Meridian

T. 2 N., R. 4 W.,
    Sec. 4, lots 3 and 4, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SW\1/
4\NW\1/4\.
T. 3 N., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 34, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and S\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The area described contains 159.91 acres in Duchesne County.

    2. At 10 a.m. on March 28, 2005, the lands described in Paragraph 1 
above will be opened to location and entry under the United States 
mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals, 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.

(Authority: 43 CFR 2091.6)

    Dated: December 16, 2004.
Kent Hoffman,
Deputy State Director, Lands and Minerals.
[FR Doc. 05-3516 Filed 2-23-05; 8:45 am]
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