[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-31242]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CA-930; CACA 7670 and CACA 7672]


Public Land Order No. 7723; Partial Revocation of Lighthouse 
Withdrawals Created by Two Executive Orders and Transfer of 
Administrative Jurisdiction; California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes the withdrawals created by two 
Executive Orders insofar as they affect approximately 700 acres of 
public lands reserved for lighthouse purposes. This order also 
transfers administrative jurisdiction of the lands to the National Park 
Service to be managed as part of the Channel Islands National Park. The 
United States Coast Guard has determined the reservations are no longer 
needed.

DATES: January 2, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duane Marti, BLM California State 
Office (CA-930), 2800 Cottage Way, Suite W-1834, Sacramento, California 
95825-1886; 916-978-4675.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public lands comprise Anacapa Island, 
which consists of three islets, and Cat Rock; all of which are located 
in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 14 miles west of the coast of 
California. The Act of Congress dated March 5, 1980 (16 U.S.C. 410ff 
and 410ff-1 (2000)), established the Channel Islands National Park and 
authorized the Secretary of the Interior to transfer administrative 
jurisdiction of Federal property located within the park boundary to 
the National Park Service. The lands have been and will continue to be 
closed to all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, 
including mining and mineral leasing.

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 withdrawals created by Executive Orders dated September 11, 
1854 and January 26, 1867, which withdrew public lands from surface 
entry and mining and reserved them for lighthouse purposes, are hereby 
revoked insofar as they affect the following lands:

San Bernardino Meridian

Unsurveyed T. 2 S., Rgs. 24 and 25 W.

    All of that part of the Anacapa Island Lighthouse Reservation, a 
group of three islets known as Anacapa Island, including the 
following described parcels of land:
    Parcel 1 All of the land comprising the east islet of the group 
lying eastward of West Longitude 119[deg] 23' 38'' (North American 
Datum 1927) comprising 106.88 acres, more or less;
    Parcel 2 All of the land comprising the middle islet lying 
between West Longitude 119[deg] 23' 21'' and 119[deg] 23' 30'' and 
south of Latitude 34[deg] 00' 14'' North comprising 7.68 acres, more 
or less;
    Parcel 3 All of the land comprising the west islet, lying 
westward of West Longitude 119[deg] 26' 10'' comprising 46.72 acres, 
more or less; and
    Parcel 4 The entire area of Cat Rock, which lies off the 
southern extremity of the west islet comprising 0.5 acre more or 
less; and all the remaining lands originally withdrawn for 
lighthouse purposes and incorporated into the Channel Islands 
National Monument by Presidential Proclamation No. 2281, containing 
538.22 acres, more or less.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 700 acres in Ventura 
County.

    2. Subject to valid existing rights, the administrative 
jurisdiction of the public lands described above in Paragraph 1 is 
hereby transferred to the National Park Service, pursuant to Section 
202 of the Act of Congress dated March 5, 1980, (16 U.S.C. 410ff-1 
(2000)).
    3. The public lands described above in paragraph 1 are located 
within the exterior boundary of the Channel Islands National Park, and 
shall be administered as part of that park in accordance with 
applicable Federal laws and regulations.

    Dated: December 16, 2008.
C. Stephen Allred,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. E8-31242 Filed 12-31-08; 8:45 am]
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