[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 125 (Thursday, June 30, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39122-39123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13430]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNVC01000.L19200000.ET0000; LRORF1911800; MO#4500160540]


Public Land Order No. 7909; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
7873; Withdrawal for Land Management Evaluation Purposes, and 
Correction of Legal Land Description; Nevada

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order extends the duration of the withdrawal created by 
Public Land Order (PLO) No. 7873 for an additional 4-year term. The 
withdrawal created by PLO No. 7873 expires on August 23, 2022. This 
order continues the withdrawal of 694,838.84 acres of public land in 
Churchill, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, and Pershing Counties, Nevada from all 
forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including location 
and entry under the United States mining laws, and leasing under the 
mineral and geothermal leasing laws, subject to valid existing rights, 
for 4 years for land management evaluation purposes. In addition, 
68,809.44 acres of Federal land in the Dixie Valley area (Churchill 
County, Nevada) continues to be withdrawn from leasing under the 
mineral leasing laws. Including the 8,722.47 acres of Department of the 
Navy (DON) lands, the total Federal land continue to be withdrawn by 
this Public Land Order is 772,370.75 acres. Non-Federal lands totaling 
66,160.53 acres are described within the withdrawal area. Any current 
or future Federal estate interest in these non-Federal lands is subject 
to this withdrawal. Additionally, this Order corrects a portion of the 
legal land description published in the Federal Register on August 31, 
2018.

DATES: This PLO takes effect on August 23, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colleen Dingman, BLM, Carson City 
District Office, (775) 885-6168; address: 5665 Morgan Mill Road, Carson 
City, NV 89701; email: [email protected]. Individuals in the United 
States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech 
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 
telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United 
States should use the relay services offered within their country to 
make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Federal Register Correction

    In the Federal Register of August 31, 2018 (83 FR 44654), on page 
44657, in the third column, correct Sec. 24 to read as follows:
    Sec. 24, those portions of lots 1 and 2 lying north of the 
southerly line of a dirt road, and lots 3 thru 6, and 11 thru 14.

Extension of Duration of Withdrawal

    PLO No. 7873 withdrew 694,838.84 acres of Federal land in 
Churchill, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, and Pershing Counties, Nevada, for up to 
4 years from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, 
including location and entry under the United States mining laws, and 
leasing under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, subject to valid 
existing rights. The purpose of this withdrawal extension is to 
maintain the current environmental baseline, relative to mining, 
mineral exploration and development, and geothermal energy development 
for land management evaluation purposes. The extension of PLO No. 7873 
includes 68,809.44 acres of Federal land in the Dixie Valley Training 
Area from the mineral leasing laws (not currently withdrawn from these 
laws under Section 3016 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2000, Pub. L. 106-
65), to maintain the current environmental baseline, relative to 
mineral exploration and development for land management evaluation 
purposes, subject to valid existing rights.
    Including the 8,722.47 acres of Department of the Navy (DON) lands, 
the total Federal land included in the withdrawal extension is 
772,370.75 acres. Non-Federal lands totaling 66,160.53 acres are 
described within the withdrawal area. Any current or future Federal 
estate interest in these non-Federal lands is subject to this 
withdrawal.
    The purpose for which the withdrawal was first made requires this 
extension because the BLM and the DON are engaged in the evaluation of 
issues relating to possible future legislative transfer of the subject 
land to the jurisdiction of the DON in connection with the DON's 
modernization of Naval Air Station Fallon, Fallon Range Training 
Complex, Nevada (FRTC). The DON anticipates requesting a legislative 
withdrawal of these additional lands and requested that the Department 
of the Interior extend PLO No. 7873 withdrawal an additional 4 years. 
PLO No. 7873 is incorporated by reference (83 FR 44654).

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. Subject to valid existing rights, PLO No. 7873, which withdrew 
694,838.84 acres of public land from all forms of appropriation under 
the public land laws and 68,809.44 acres of Federal land in the Dixie 
Valley area from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, including the 
8,722.47 acres of Department of the Navy (DON) lands, totaling 
772,370.75 acres of Federal land is hereby extended for an additional 
4-year period. Non-Federal lands totaling 66,160.53 acres are described 
within the withdrawal area. Any current or future Federal estate 
interest in these non-Federal lands is subject to this withdrawal 
extension.
    2. The withdrawal extended by this order will expire on August 23, 
2026,

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unless, as a result of review conducted before 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.

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714)

Tanya Trujillo,
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.
[FR Doc. 2022-13430 Filed 6-29-22; 8:45 am]
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