[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 36101]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-14382]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT-070-1430-FQ; MTM 058317 and MTM 40412]


Public Land Order No. 7712; Modification of Executive Order Dated 
July 2, 1910 and Secretarial Order Dated May 6, 1910; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order modifies an Executive Order and a Secretarial Order 
insofar as they affect 20 acres of public lands withdrawn by Power Site 
Reserve No. 141. This action also notifies the public of a Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission determination that opens 10 acres within a 
Power Project overlapping the Power Site Reserve. The combined actions 
will open the lands to a land exchange subject to Section 24 of the 
Federal Power Act.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 25, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Hotaling, BLM Butte Field 
Office, 106 North Parkmont, Butte, Montana, 406-533-7600, or Sandra 
Ward, BLM Montana State Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 
59101-4669, 406-896-5052.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This action will permit the consummation of 
a pending land exchange and reserves the power rights to the United 
States.

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), the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as 
amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (2000), and pursuant to the determination of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in DVMT-251-000, dated May 3, 
2007, it is declared and ordered as follows:
    1. At 9 a.m. on July 25, 2008, the following described lands, 
withdrawn by Executive Order dated July 2, 1910, and Secretarial Order 
dated May 6, 1910, for Power Site Reserve No. 141 and Federal Power 
Commission Order dated April 23, 1956, for Power Project No. 2188, will 
be opened to disposal by land exchange, subject to the provisions of 
Section 24 of the Federal Power Act as specified by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission in DVMT-251-000, and subject to valid existing 
rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, and the requirements of 
applicable law:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 11 N., R. 2 W.,
    Sec. 17, lots 3 and 4.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 20 acres in Lewis 
and Clark County.

    2. The State of Montana waived its preference right for public 
highway rights-of-way or material sites as provided by the Act of June 
19, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (2000).

    Authority: 43 CFR 2320.

     Dated: June 4, 2008.
C. Stephen Allred,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
 [FR Doc. E8-14382 Filed 6-24-08; 8:45 am]
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