[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 144 (Thursday, July 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42662-42663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12007]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UTU 42931, UTU 42932, UTU 42933, UTU 42938, UTU 011167, and UTU 
0139316]


Public Land Order No. 7666; Partial Revocation of Six Bureau of 
Reclamation Project Withdrawal Orders; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes four Secretarial Orders, one 
Bureau of Reclamation Order, and one Public Land Order insofar as they 
affect approximately 25,133 acres of lands withdrawn for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Central Utah and Strawberry Valley Projects. This order 
opens approximately 24,293 acres of Federal lands to such forms of 
disposition as may by law be authorized on National Forest System lands 
and to mining.

DATES: Effective Date: August 28, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Reed Murray, Central Utah Project 
Completion Act Office, 302 East 1860 South, Provo, Utah 84606-7317, 
801-379-1237.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands are no longer needed for 
reclamation purposes and the Bureau of Reclamation and the Forest 
Service concur with the partial revocation. This is a record-clearing 
action only for the non-Federal 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. The Secretarial Orders dated May 6, 1905, November 16, 1905, 
January 30, 1906, and November 17, 1916, which withdrew lands for the 
Bureau of Reclamation's Strawberry Valley Project; and the Bureau of 
Reclamation Order dated December 17, 1954 (20 FR 8580), and Public Land 
Order No. 3682 (30 FR 7821), which withdrew lands for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Central Utah Project, are hereby revoked insofar as they 
affect the following described lands:

(a) Federal Lands

Uinta National Forest

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 8 S., R. 4 E.,
    Sec. 36, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, lots 6, 7, 8, 12, and 13, and 
NW\1/4\.
T. 9 S., R. 4 E.,
    Sec. 1, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 3, lots 1 and 2, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 9, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, N\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 17, N\1/2\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 8 S., R. 5 E.,
    Sec. 1, lots 2, 3, and 4, and S\1/2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 2, lots 1, 2, and 7;
    Sec. 12, N\1/2\, SW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, and W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, E\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 21, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 22, NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\S\1/
2\;
    Sec. 23, E\1/2\E\1/2\ and W\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, E\1/2\E\1/2\, NW\1/4\, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/
4\;
    Sec. 25, NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 26, W\1/2\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 27, N\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 29, E\1/2\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 31, lots 1, 3, and 4, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/
2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, N\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 33, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 34, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 35, NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 36.
T. 7 S., R. 6 E.,
    Sec. 32, N\1/2\, W\1/2\SW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/
4\;
    Sec. 33, N\1/2\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 34, NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and N\1/2\SE\1/
4\;
    Sec. 35, N\1/2\ and N\1/2\S\1/2\.
T. 8 S., R. 6 E.,
    Sec. 2, lots 1 to 8, inclusive, lots 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16;
    Sec. 3, lots 1, 2, and 3, lots 5 to 16, inclusive, N\1/2\SW\1/
4\, and SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 4, lots 4 to 16, inclusive, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 5, lots 1, lots 6 to 16, inclusive, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 6, lots 2 and16, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 7, E\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 8, NE\1/4\, E\1/2\W\1/2\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 9, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/
4\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, E\1/2\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\;
    Secs. 11 and 16;
    Sec. 17, E\1/2\E\1/2\;
    Sec. 18, SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 19;
    Sec. 20, E\1/2\E\1/2\ and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 29, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\W\1/2\, and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Secs. 30 and 31.

Uintah Special Meridian

T. 3 S., R. 12 W.,
    Sec. 11;
    Sec. 13, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 14;
    Sec. 24, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\E\1/2\, and W\1/2\;
    Sec. 25, N\1/2\, SW\1/4\, and N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 36, S\1/2\SW\1/4\.
T. 4 S., R. 12 W.,
    Sec. 1, S\1/2\NE\1/4\ and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 2, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\NW\1/4\, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and S\1/
2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 3, lots 1, 2, 4, and 5, and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, lots 3 and 4, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, and E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, N\1/2\N\1/2\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and NW\1/
4\SW\1/4\;
    Secs. 12, 13, 24, 25, and 35.

(b) Non-Federal Lands

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 9 S., R. 3 E.,
    Sec. 16.
T. 9 S., R. 4 E.,
    Sec. 3, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;

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    Sec. 9, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 25,133 acres in 
Duchesne and Utah Counties.

    2. At 10 a.m. on August 28, 2006, the lands described in Paragraph 
1(a) shall 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 lands described in Paragraph 1(a) 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: July 3, 2006.
R. Thomas Weimer,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
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