[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 1770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-155]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-936-1430-ET; HAG-06-0013; WAOR-57965]


Public Land Order No. 7652; Withdrawal of Public Lands, San Juan 
Archipelago; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 276.41 acres of public lands from 
location and entry under the United States mining laws for a period of 
20 years for the Bureau of Land Management to protect the unique 
natural, scenic, and recreational values and Federal improvements on 11 
tracts of land in the San Juan Archipelago.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 11, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Oregon/Washington State Office, BLM, P.O. Box 2965, 
Portland, Oregon 97208-2965.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Schurger, BLM, Wenatchee Field 
Office, 509-665-2116, or Charles R. Roy, BLM, Oregon/Washington State 
Office, 503-808-6189.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bureau of Land Management will manage 
the lands to protect the unique natural, scenic, and recreational 
values and the investment of Federal funds on 11 tracts of public lands 
in the San Juan Archipelago. Complete legal descriptions for those 
tracts described by metes and bounds are available from the Bureau of 
Land Management office at the address above.

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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
lands in the San Juan Archipelago are hereby withdrawn from location 
and entry under the United States mining laws, (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 
(2000)), for the Bureau of Land Management to protect the unique 
natural, scenic, and recreational values:

Willamette Meridian

Tract H (Lopez Island: NW Chadwick Hill and Wetland)

T. 34 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 17, metes and bounds parcel in the SE\1/4\.

Tract I (Lopez Island: Chadwick Hill/Watmough Bay)

T. 34 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 21, lot 1 and NW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

Tract J (Lopez Island: Watmough Bay)

T. 34 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 21, metes and bounds parcel in lot 2 and SW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

Tract K (Lopez Island: Watmough Head and Watmough Bay)

T. 34 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 21, metes and bounds parcel in lot 2.

Tract L (Lopez Island: Cape St. Mary)

T. 34 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 15, lot 1.

Tract M (Lopez Island: Lopez Pass)

T. 35 N., R. 1 W.,
    Sec. 33, lot 1.

Tract N (Eliza Island: south end)

T. 36 N., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 5, Eliza Island. (unsurveyed).

Tract O (Lummi Island: Carter Point)

T. 36 N., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 6, Lummi Island. (unsurveyed).

Tract P (Lummi Rocks)

T. 37 N., R. 1 E.,
    Sec. 27, Lummi Rocks in the NW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\NE\1/4\. 
(unsurveyed).

Tract Q (Chuckanut Rock)

T. 37 N., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 24, Chuckanut Rock. (unsurveyed).

Tract R (west end of Patos Island)

T. 38 N., R. 2 W.,
    Sec. 17, most westerly 5 acres of Patos Island as described by 
metes and bounds.

    The areas described aggregate 276.41 acres in San Juan and 
Whatcom Counties.

    2. This withdrawal will expire 20 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review conducted before the 
expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) (2000), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: December 15, 2005.
Craig Manson,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
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