[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 73 (Friday, April 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19999-20000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-8778]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLOR-936000-L14300000-ET0000; HAG-09-0126; WAOR-42920]


Public Land Order No. 7739; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
6776; Washington

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. 6776 for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary 
to continue protection of the North Cascades Scenic Highway Zone in 
Chelan, Okanogan, Skagit, and Whatcom Counties, Washington which would 
otherwise expire on April 17, 2010.

DATES: Effective Date: April 18, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory B. Graham, U.S. Forest Service 
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, 215 Melody Lane, Wenatchee, 
Washington 98801, (509) 664-9262, or Charles R. Roy, Bureau of Land 
Management Oregon/Washington State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, 
Oregon 97208, (503) 808-6189.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose for which the withdrawal was 
first made requires this extension to continue protection of the unique 
natural, scenic, and recreational values and the investment of Federal 
funds along the North Cascades Scenic Highway Zone within the Mt. 
Baker, Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forest. The United States 
Forest Service will continue to manage the lands to protect these 
values.

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, it is ordered as follows:
    1. Public Land Order No. 6776 (55 FR 14422, (1990)) that withdrew 
8,950 acres of National Forest System lands from location or entry 
under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. ch. 2) on behalf of the 
Forest Service to protect the North Cascades Scenic Highway Zone, is 
hereby extended for an additional 20-year period.
    2. Public Land Order No. 6776 will expire on April 17, 2030, 
unless, as a result of a review conducted prior to the expiration date, 
pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 
1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f), the Secretary of the Interior determines that 
the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: April 9, 2010.
Wilma A. Lewis,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 2010-8778 Filed 4-15-10; 8:45 am]
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