[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52767-52768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26815]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CO-935-1430-01; COC-28607, COC-28644]
Public Land Order No. 7288; Partial Revocation of an Executive
Order and a Secretarial Order; Colorado
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes an Executive order and a
Secretarial order insofar as they affect 3,815.40 acres of National
Forest System lands withdrawn for waterpower purposes. These lands no
longer have waterpower value. The withdrawals will be revoked and the
lands opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of
National Forest System lands to allow for an exchange. The lands have
been open to mining under the provisions of the Mining Claims Rights
Restoration Act of 1955, and these provisions are no longer required.
The lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 24, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076, 303-239-
3706.
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. The Executive Order dated March 21, 1914, which established
Power Site Reserve No. 427, and the Secretarial Order dated July 1,
1944, which established Power Site Classification No. 362, are hereby
revoked insofar as they affect the following described National Forest
System lands:
Sixth Principal Meridian
Arapaho National Forest
T. 2 N., R. 71 W.,
Sec. 4, lots 3 and 4, and S\1/2\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 5, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and S\1/2\N\1/2\.
T. 3 N., R. 71 W.,
Sec. 19, lots 9 to 13, inclusive;
Sec. 20, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 21, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 28, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 31, lots 11 and 12;
Sec. 32, lots 8, 9, and 12 to 15, inclusive;
Sec. 33, lots 3 to 6, inclusive, and 11 to 14, inclusive.
T. 2 N., R. 72 W.,
Sec. 2, SE\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 5, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 7, lots 11 and 14;
Sec. 10, lots 1, 4, 5, and 7 to 16, inclusive;
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Sec. 11, N\1/2\ and N\1/2\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 15, N\1/2\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and E\1/
2\W\1/2\.
T. 3 N., R. 72 W.,
Sec. 15, lots 13 and 14;
Sec. 21, lots 8 and 9;
Sec. 24, lots 2, 4, and 8.
T. 3 N., R. 73 W.,
Sec. 12, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 13, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.
The areas described aggregate 3,815.40 acres in Boulder County.
2. At 9 a.m. on October 24, 1997, the lands described above shall
be open to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National
Forest System lands subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the
requirements of applicable law.
The lands have been open to mining under the provisions of the
Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, 30 U.S.C. 621 (1994), and
these provisions are no longer required.
Dated: September 26, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-26815 Filed 10-8-97; 8:45 am]
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