[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 16, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20708-20709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-8201]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AK-963-1430-ET; F-84742]


Public Land Order No. 7703; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
6705, Alaska

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order extends the withdrawal created by Public Land Order 
No. 6705, for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary 
to continue protection of the United States Air Force Beaver Creek 
Research Site in Alaska which would otherwise expire on January 10, 
2009.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 11, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terrie Evarts, Bureau of Land 
Management, Alaska State Office, 222 West Seventh Avenue, 13, 
Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7504; or 907-271-5630.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The withdrawal extended by this order will 
expire January 10, 2029, unless, as a result of a review conducted 
prior to 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

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that the withdrawal shall be further extended.

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:
    Public Land Order No. 6705, (54 FR 978-979 (1989)), which withdrew 
approximately 3,630 acres of public land from settlement, sale, 
location, or entry under the general land laws, including the United 
States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2), and from leasing under the 
mineral leasing laws, to protect the United States Air Force Beaver 
Creek Research Site, is hereby extended for an additional 20-year 
period until January 10, 2029.

    Dated: April 2, 2008.
C. Stephen Allred,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
 [FR Doc. E8-8201 Filed 4-15-08; 8:45 am]
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