[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13069-13070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6844]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0063; ORE-017791]
Public Land Order No. 7322; Modification and Partial Revocation
of Public Land Order No. 4145; Oregon
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This order modifies a public land order to establish a 20-year
term as to 20 acres of National Forest System land withdrawn for the
Forest Service's West Eagle Meadow Campground in the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest. The land has been and remains closed to mining. This
order also revokes the public land order insofar as it affects the
remaining 49.82 acres, which will be opened to mining. All of the land
has been and remains open to surface entry and mineral leasing.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 16, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty McCarthy, BLM Oregon/Washington
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.
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. Public Land Order No. 4145 is hereby modified to 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
insofar as it affects the following described land:
Willamette Meridian
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
West Eagle Meadow Campground
T. 5 S., R. 43 E., unsurveyed,
Sec. 32, S\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
The area described contains 20 acres in Union County.
The land described above continues to be withdrawn from location
and entry under the mining laws, but has been and remains open to such
forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System
land, including leasing under the mineral leasing laws to protect the
Forest Service's West Eagle Meadow Campground.
2. Public Land Order No. 4145 is hereby revoked insofar as it
affects the following described land:
Willamette Meridian
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
West Eagle Meadow Campground
T. 5 S., R. 43 E., unsurveyed,
Sec. 32, N\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and S\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 6 S., R. 43 E.,
Sec. 5, NE\1/4\ of lot 4.
The area described contains approximately 49.82 acres in Union
and Baker Counties.
3. At 8:30 a.m. on April 16, 1998, the land described in paragraph
2 will be opened to location and entry under the United States mining
laws, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing
withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the requirements of
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applicable law. Appropriation of any of the land described in paragraph
2 of this order under the general mining laws prior to the date and
time of restoration is unauthorized. Any such attempted appropriation,
including attempted adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1994), shall
vest no rights against the United States. Acts required to establish a
location and to initiate a right of possession are governed by State
law where not in conflict with Federal law. The Bureau of Land
Management will not intervene in disputes between rival locators over
possessory rights since Congress has provided for such determinations
in local courts.
Dated: March 5, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-6844 Filed 3-16-98; 8:45 am]
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