[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 115 (Thursday, June 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35111-35112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11856]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-923; COC-06785]


Public Land Order No. 7639; Partial Revocation of Public Land 
Order No. 1176; CO

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes Public Land Order No. 1176 
insofar as it affects 99.35 acres of National Forest System land 
withdrawn for the Forest Service as an administrative site. This action 
will open the land to such forms of disposition as may by law be 
authorized on National Forest System land and to mining. The land has 
been and remains open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 18, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado, 80215-7093, (303) 
239-3706.

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. 1176, which withdrew National Forest 
System land for recreation and administrative sites and other public 
purposes, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following 
described land in the State of Colorado:

Manti-LaSal National Forest, New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 48 N., R. 20 W.,
    Sec. 3, lots 3 and 4.

    The area described contains 99.35 acres in Montrose County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on July 18, 2005, the land will be opened to such 
forms of disposition as may by law be authorized on National Forest 
System land, including 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 land 
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.


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    Dated: May 31, 2005.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 05-11856 Filed 6-15-05; 8:45 am]
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