[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56362-56363]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27256]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[NM-050-1430-00; NMNM 95102]
Public Land Order No. 7415; Withdrawal of Public Land for Datil
Well Special Recreation Management Area; New Mexico
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 680 acres of public land from surface
entry and mining for a period of 20 years, for the Bureau of Land
Management to protect scenic, interpretive, educational, and
recreational values, and a developed campground within the Datil Well
Special Recreation Management Area. The land has been and will remain
open to mineral leasing.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 19, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois Bell, BLM Socorro Field Office,
198 Neel Avenue, NW, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, 505-835-0412.
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 (1994), it is ordered as follows:
1. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public
land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry
under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws,
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), but not from leasing under the mineral
leasing laws, for the Bureau of Land Management to protect scenic,
interpretive, educational, and recreation values and facilities within
the Datil Well Special Recreation Management Area:
New Mexico Principal Meridian
T. 2 S., R. 10 W.,
Sec. 10;
Sec. 11, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
The area described contains 680 acres in Catron County.
2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the land
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
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3. This withdrawal will expire 20 years from the effective date of
this order unless, as a result of a 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) (1994), the Secretary
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.
Dated: October 5, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-27256 Filed 10-18-99; 8:45 am]
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