[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 57 (Thursday, March 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 14463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7300]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[NM-050-1110-00; NMNM 95104]
Public Land Order No. 7382; Withdrawal of Public Lands for the
Devil's Backbone Desert Bighorn Sheep Habitat Area; New Mexico
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public land order.
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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 5,607.52 acres of public lands from
surface entry and mining for a period of 20 years for the Bureau of
Land Management to protect and preserve endangered desert bighorn sheep
habitat within the Devil's Backbone Desert Bighorn Sheep Habitat Area.
The lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 25, 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
lands are hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry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, to protect and preserve endangered desert bighorn sheep
habitat within the Devil's Backbone Desert Bighorn Sheep Habitat Area:
New Mexico Principal Meridian
T. 5 S., R. 3 W.,
sec. 16, lots 5 to 8, inclusive, N\1/2\, and N\1/2\S\1/2\
secs. 21, 28, 29, and 32.
T. 6 S., R. 3 W.,
sec. 4, lots 3 and 4, and SW\1/4\;
sec. 9, W\1/2\;
sec. 15, W\1/2\;
sec. 16;
sec. 22, NE\1/4\, N\1/2\NW\1/2\, SE\1/4\W E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and
SE\1/4\.
T. 5 S., R. 4 W.,
sec. 25, E\1/2\.
The areas described aggregate 5,607.52 acres in Socorro County.
2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the lands
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
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: March 12, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-7300 Filed 3-24-99; 8:45 am]
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