[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 63 (Friday, April 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18244-18245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-7725]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLAK963000-L14300000-ET-P: F-81469, F-81490]


Public Land Order No. 7760; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
6839; 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. 6839, which modified Public Land Order No. 2344, as amended, for a 
20-year period until April 1, 2031. This extension is necessary to 
allow the continued protection of the Barrow Base Line Observatory 
(formerly known as the Barrow Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic 
Change Observatory) and the Barrow Magnetic Observatory (formerly known 
as the Barrow Geomagnetic Observatory). This order also provides the 
official surveyed land description of the areas withdrawn by Public 
Land Order No. 6839.

DATES: Effective Date: April 2, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert L. Lloyd, BLM Alaska State 
Office, 222 West Seventh Avenue, 13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-
7504.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey requested the extension 
for the continued protection of the facilities

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and uninterrupted performance of their missions at the Barrow Base Line 
Observatory and the Barrow Magnetic Observatory, respectively. The land 
continues to be used for the purpose for which it was withdrawn by both 
agencies. The withdrawal extended by this order will expire on April 1, 
2031, 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), the Secretary determines 
that the withdrawal shall be further extended. It has been determined 
that this action is not expected to have any significant effect on 
subsistence uses and needs pursuant to Section 810 of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3120).

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. 6839 (56 FR 13413 (1991)), which modified 
Public Land Order No. 2344 (26 FR 3701 (1961)), transferred 
jurisdiction of approximately 216 acres of public land to the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United States Geological 
Survey. This land had been withdrawn from all forms of appropriation 
under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing 
laws, but not disposal of materials under the Act of July 31, 1947, 30 
U.S.C. 601-604, as amended. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration facility encumbers 171 acres for the Barrow Base Line 
Observatory. The United States Geological Survey facility encumbers 45 
acres for the Barrow Magnetic Observatory. The withdrawal for both 
facilities is hereby extended until April 1, 2031.
    2. The plat of dependent resurvey, U.S. Survey No. 5253, officially 
filed in the Alaska State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Anchorage, 
Alaska, on July 14, 2010, establishes lots 13, 14, 15, and 16 in T. 23 
N., R. 18 W., Umiat Meridian containing 215.69 acres, to replace the 
land described in Paragraphs 1(a) and (b) and 2 of Public Land Order 
No. 6839 (56 FR 13413 (1991)).

    Authority: 43 CFR 2310.4.

    Dated: March 23, 2011.
Wilma A. Lewis,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 2011-7725 Filed 3-31-11; 8:45 am]
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