[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 62 (Monday, March 31, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16900-16901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6583]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UTU 42911 and UTU 42915]


Public Land Order No. 7698; Modification of Secretarial Orders 
Dated July 6, 1925 and April 1, 1941; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: This order establishes a 20-year term for two Secretarial 
Orders which withdrew lands from surface entry and mining and reserved 
them on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation for the Salt Lake Basin and 
Gooseberry Projects. The lands, which currently aggregate approximately 
6,768 acres after a previous partial revocation, are still needed for 
the purpose for which they were withdrawn. The lands will remain 
withdrawn from surface entry and mining but not from mineral and 
geothermal leasing or mineral material sales.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rhonda Flynn, BLM Utah State Office, 
440 West 200 South, Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1345, 801-
539-4132.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bureau of Reclamation has determined 
that the lands are still needed for reclamation purposes. The lands 
will remain withdrawn from surface entry and mining but not from 
mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral material sales. The April 1, 
1941 Secretarial Order was partially revoked by Public Land Order No. 
5040. A copy of the pertinent orders containing legal descriptions of 
the lands involved is available from the Bureau of Land Management, 
Utah State 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

[[Page 16901]]

Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714 (2000), it is ordered as 
follows:
    The Secretarial Orders dated July 6, 1925 and April 1, 1941, which 
withdrew lands from surface entry and mining and reserved them on 
behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation for the Salt Lake Basin and 
Gooseberry Projects, are hereby modified to 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 withdrawals shall be extended.

     Dated: March 20, 2008.
C. Stephen Allred,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
 [FR Doc. E8-6583 Filed 3-28-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-MN-P