[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 180 (Friday, September 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 57061]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23326]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AZA22647 and AZA23294]


Public Land Order No. 7749; Extension of Public Land Order Nos. 
6801 and 6812; Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order extends the duration of two withdrawals created by 
Public Land Order Nos. 6801 and 6812 for an additional 20-year period. 
The extensions are necessary to continue to protect valuable facilities 
and improvements associated with the Smithsonian Institution's Fred 
Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Base Camp site.

DATES: Effective Date: September 19, 2010 (PLO No. 6801) and October 
31, 2010 (PLO No. 6812).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karl Sandwell-Weiss, U.S. Forest 
Service Coronado National Forest Office, Federal Building, 300 West 
Congress Street, Tucson, Arizona 85701, (520) 388-8348, or Vivian 
Titus, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State Office, One North 
Central, Suite 800, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, (602) 417-9598.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To maintain the purpose for which the 
withdrawals were first made, an extension is required to continue to 
protect valuable facilities and improvements associated with the 
Smithsonian Institution's Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Base 
Camp site. The facilities include the observatory, a visitor center, 
the administrative offices, a motor pool, and the picnic area. The 
lands continue to be used for the purpose for which they were 
withdrawn.

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. 6801 (55 FR 38550, (1990)) that withdrew 
61.356 acres of National Forest System lands from location or entry 
under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. chapter 2) on behalf of 
the U.S. Forest Service to protect valuable facilities and improvements 
for scientific work associated with the Smithsonian Institution's Fred 
Lawrence Whipple Observatory, is hereby extended for an additional 20-
year period. Public Land Order No. 6801 will expire on September 18, 
2030, unless, as a result of a new 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), the Secretary determines 
that the withdrawal shall be further extended.
    2. Public Land Order No. 6812 (55 FR 45805, (1990)) that withdrew 
40 acres of National Forest System lands from location or entry under 
the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. chapter 2) on behalf of the 
U.S. Forest Service to protect valuable facilities and improvements 
associated with the Smithsonian Institution's Fred Lawrence Whipple 
Observatory Base Camp Site, is hereby extended for an additional 20-
year period. Public Land Order No. 6812 will expire on October 30, 
2030, unless, as a result of a new 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), the Secretary determines 
that the withdrawal shall be further extended.

    Dated: September 7, 2010.
Wilma A. Lewis,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 2010-23326 Filed 9-16-10; 8:45 am]
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