[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15772-15773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5988]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AK-963-1410-FQ; F-14223]


Public Land Order No. 7692; Partial Revocation of Public Land 
Order No. 5150, as Amended; Alaska

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a Public Land Order as it affects 
approximately 82,608 acres of public lands withdrawn and reserved as a 
utility and transportation corridor within Alaska. This order also 
makes the lands available for selection and conveyance to the State of 
Alaska.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 25, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Renee Fencl, Bureau of Land 
Management, Alaska State Office, 222 West Seventh Avenue,  13, 
Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599; 907-271-5067.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The withdrawal was reviewed through the land 
use planning process for the Bureau of Land Management East Alaska 
Resource Management Plan. It was determined to retain the lands 
withdrawn by Public Land Order No. 5150, as amended, under Federal 
management except for the lands described in Paragraph 1 areas located 
near Paxson, Alaska. Upon revocation, the State of Alaska applications 
for selection made under the Alaska Statehood Act and the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act become effective without 
further action by the State, if such lands are otherwise available. 
Otherwise, the lands in this order will continue to be subject to the 
terms and conditions of Public Land Order No. 5180, as amended, and any 
other withdrawal, applications, or segregation of record.

Order

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by section 22(h)(4) of the Alaska Native Claims

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Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. 1631(h)(4) and 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. 5150, as amended, which withdrew lands and 
reserved them for utility and transportation corridor purposes, is 
hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described unsurveyed 
lands:

Fairbanks Meridian
T. 17 S., R. 9 E.,
    Secs. 25 to 36, inclusive.
T. 18 S., R. 9 E.,
    Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
T. 17 S., R. 10 E.,
    Secs. 29 to 34, inclusive.
T. 18 S., R. 10 E.,
    Secs. 3 to 10, inclusive;
    Secs. 15 to 22, inclusive;
    Secs. 27 to 34, inclusive.
T. 19 S., R. 10 E.,
    Secs. 4 to 9, inclusive;
    Secs. 17 to 20, inclusive;
    Secs. 28 to 33, inclusive.
T. 20 S., R. 12 E.,
    Secs. 1 to 3, inclusive;
    Secs. 10 to 15, inclusive;
    Secs. 22 to 27, inclusive;
    Secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.
T. 21 S., R. 12 E.,
    Secs. 1 to 3, inclusive;
    Secs. 10 to 15, inclusive;
    Secs. 22 to 27, inclusive;
    Secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 82,608 acres.
    2. The State of Alaska applications for selection made under 
section 6(b) of the Alaska Statehood Act of July 7, 1958, 48 U.S.C. 
note prec. 21 (2000), and under section 906(e) of the Alaska National 
Interest Lands Conservation Act, 43 U.S.C. 1635(e) (2000), become 
effective without further action by the State upon publication of this 
Public Land Order in the Federal Register, if such lands are otherwise 
available. Lands selected by, but not conveyed to, the State will 
continue to be subject to Public Land Order No. 5180, as amended, and 
any other withdrawal or segregation of record.

    Dated: March 13, 2008.
C. Stephen Allred,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
 [FR Doc. E8-5988 Filed 3-24-08; 8:45 am]
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