[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 106 (Friday, June 2, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 36333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11783]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[223.LLAK941200.L1440000.ET0000; AA-95542]


Public Land Order No. 7922; Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area; 
Alaska

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This Public Land Order (PLO) withdraws approximately 4,560 
acres of National Forest System lands near Juneau, Alaska, from 
location and entry under the United States mining laws, and from 
leasing under the mineral leasing laws, for a 20-year period, subject 
to valid existing rights, to protect the recreational and natural 
resource values of the lands adjacent to the Mendenhall Glacier 
Recreation Area as the Mendenhall Glacier recedes.

DATES: This PLO takes effect on June 2, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chelsea Kreiner, BLM Alaska State 
Office, 222 West Seventh Avenue, Mailstop 13, Anchorage, AK 99513-7504, 
(907) 271-4205, or [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: The purpose of the withdrawal established by 
this PLO is to maintain the natural setting and protect the 
recreational and natural resource values as the Mendenhall Glacier 
recedes and leaves additional lands unprotected adjacent to an existing 
withdrawal created in 1952 by PLO No. 829. The lands remain open to 
other uses at the discretion of the Authorized Officer.

Order

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by section 204(d) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714 (d), it is ordered as follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described 
National Forest System land is hereby withdrawn from location and entry 
under the United States mining laws, and from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws, and reserved for protection of the recreational and 
natural resource values of lands in the vicinity of the Mendenhall 
Glacier:

Copper River Meridian, Alaska

Tongass National Forest

T. 39 S, Rs. 65 and 66 E, more particularly described as follows:
    Beginning at Corner No. 2, U.S. Survey No. 1536, Alaska.
    Thence, along the record courses of PLO 829, N 18[deg]30' W, a 
distance of 160 chains; Thence, N 55[deg]00', a distance of 100 
chains, to the Point of Beginning of the Mendenhall Glacier 
Withdrawal; Thence, N 26[deg]00' E, a distance of 110 chains; 
Thence, N 78[deg]30' E, a distance of 260 chains; Thence, S 
8[deg]30' E, a distance of 133 chains; Thence, S 33[deg]00' W, a 
distance of 90 chains; Thence, S 77[deg]00' W, a distance of 101 
 chains, to the boundary of PLO 829; Thence, along said 
boundary on the following courses, N 20[deg]00' W, a distance of 24 
 chains; Thence, N 45[deg]00' W, a distance of 80 
chains; Thence, West, a distance of 110 chains, to the Point of 
Beginning of the Mendenhall Glacier Withdrawal, containing 4,560 
 acres.

    2. This withdrawal will expire 20 years from the effective date of 
this order, 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 extended.

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

Shannon A. Estenoz,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. 2023-11783 Filed 6-1-23; 8:45 am]
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