[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 115 (Thursday, June 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 35112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11857]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-930-1430-ET; COC-28315]


Public Land Order No. 7640; Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated 
September 4, 1936; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial Order in its entirety as it 
affects the remaining 800 acres of National Forest System land 
withdrawn for the Bureau of Reclamation's Western Slope Survey/Yampa-
White Reclamation Project. This order opens the land to such forms of 
disposition as may by law be authorized on National Forest System land 
and to mining.

DATES: Effective July 18, 2005.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bureau of Reclamation has determined 
that this land is no longer needed for reclamation purposes and has 
requested the revocation.

Order

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by Section 204(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714 (2000), it is ordered as follows:
    1. The Secretarial Order dated September 4, 1936, which withdrew 
National Forest System land for the Bureau of Reclamation Western Slope 
Survey/Yampa-White Project, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Routt National Forest, Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 1 N., R. 86 W.,
    Sec. 16;
    Sec. 17, SE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 800 acres in Garfield 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 lands, 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.

    Dated: May 31, 2005
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 05-11857 Filed 6-15-05; 8:45 am]
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