[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 185 (Monday, September 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 58868]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-23475]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLOR-936000-L14300000-ET0000-HAG12-0000; WAOR-19641]


Public Land Order No. 7798; Partial Modification of Power Site 
Classification No. 126; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially modifies a withdrawal which established 
Power Site Classification No. 126, insofar as it affects approximately 
21.70 acres of National Forest System land withdrawn to protect water 
power values along the Nooksack River in Whatcom County, Washington. 
This order opens the land to such forms of disposition as may by law be 
made of National Forest System lands subject to a Section 24 Federal 
Power Act reservation.

DATES: Effective Date: September 24, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robin Ligons, Bureau of Land 
Management Oregon State Office, 333 SW 1st Ave., Portland, Oregon 
97204, 503-808-6169. Persons who use a telecommunications device for 
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 
1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual. The FIRS is available 
24 hours a day, 7-days a week, to leave a message or question with the 
above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business 
hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bureau of Land Management has determined 
that a portion of the land classified under Power Site Classification 
No. 126 for water power purposes will not be injured by U.S. Forest 
Service conveyance of the land out of Federal ownership under authority 
of the Small Tract Act, subject to Section 24 of the Federal Power Act 
reservation applied to the conveyance document. The Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission has no objections to the modification.

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. The withdrawal created by the Secretarial Order dated January 
23, 1926, which established Power Site Classification No. 126, is 
hereby modified to open the land to such forms of disposition as may by 
law be made of National Forest System lands insofar as it affects the 
following described land:

Willamette Meridian

T. 39 N., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 6, lot 13.

    The area described contains 21.70 acres in Whatcom County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on September 24, 2012 the land described in Paragraph 
1 is hereby open to such form of disposition as may by law be made of 
National Forest System lands subject to Section 24 of the Federal Power 
Act of June 10, 1920, as amended (16 U.S.C. 818).

    Dated: September 7, 2012.
Rhea S. Suh,
Assistant Secretary--Policy, Management and Budget.
[FR Doc. 2012-23475 Filed 9-21-12; 8:45 am]
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