[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 150 (Monday, August 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 63444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17357]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MTM-56312-01]


Public Land Order No. 7945; Extension of Public Land Order No. 
6560, as Extended by Public Land Order No. 7610; Withdrawal of Wisdom 
Administrative Site; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This Public Land Order (PLO) extends the duration of the 
withdrawal created by PLO No. 6560, as extended by PLO No. 7610, which 
would otherwise expire August 5, 2024, for an additional 20-year 
period. PLO No. 6560 withdrew 59.99 acres of public domain land outside 
the exterior boundary of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest from 
settlement, sale, location, or entry, under the general land laws, 
including the mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, and 
transferred administrative jurisdiction to the United States Forest 
Service (USFS) for use as the Wisdom Administrative Site.

DATES: This PLO takes effect on August 6, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Carr, Branch Chief, Realty Lands 
and Renewable Energy, BLM Montana/Dakotas, 5001 South Gate Drive, 
Billings, Montana 59101, telephone: (406) 538-1957; email: 
[email protected]; or Nathan Teats, Land Status Program Manager, U.S. 
Forest Service Region One, Office of the Regional Forester, 26 Fort 
Missoula Road, Missoula Montana 59804, telephone: (406) 329-3193 or 
email: [email protected].
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the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose for which the withdrawal was 
first made requires the withdrawal extension in order to continue to 
protect and preserve the USFS managed Wisdom Administrative Site, 
facilities, and capital improvements.

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. 6560 (49 FR 32068, 
(1984)), as extended
    by PLO No. 7610 (69 FR 50213, (2004)), which withdrew 59.99 acres 
of public domain land outside the exterior boundary of the Beaverhead-
Deerlodge National Forest from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
under the general land laws, including the mining laws, and transferred 
administrative jurisdiction to the USFS to protect and preserve the 
Wisdom Administrative Site, is hereby extended for an additional 20-
year period. The lands being withdrawn in this order are described as 
follows:

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 2 S., R. 15 W.,
    Sec. 34, Tract A of Certificate of Survey 369, document number 
171983 recorded June 25, 1982, filed in Beaverhead County, Montana.
T. 3 S., R. 15 W.,
    Sec. 3, Tract B of Certificate of Survey 369, document number 
171983 recorded June 25, 1982, filed in Beaverhead County, Montana.

    The area described contains 59.99 acres.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of land other 
than under the United States mining laws.
    3. The withdrawal extended by this Order will expire 20 years from 
the effective date of this order, unless, as a result of 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 the withdrawal shall be further extended.

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

Robert T. Anderson,
Solicitor.
[FR Doc. 2024-17357 Filed 8-2-24; 8:45 am]
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