[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 21, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19744-19745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10515]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0022; ORE-03587]
Public Land Order No. 7325; Modification and Partial Revocation
of Public Land Order No. 1144; OR
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public land order.
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SUMMARY: This order establishes a 20-year term as to 949.43 acres of
National Forest System lands withdrawn by a public land order for the
Forest Service's Miller Lake Recreation Area. These lands have been and
will remain closed to mining, but will be opened to surface entry, and
will remain open to mineral leasing. This order also revokes
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the public land order insofar as it affects the remaining 325 acres
which are no longer needed for the recreation site. These lands will
remain closed to surface entry, mining, and mineral leasing by an
overlapping withdrawal.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 21, 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. 1144, which withdrew lands for Forest
Service recreation areas, 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 lands:
Willamette Meridian
Winema National Forest
T. 27 S., R. 6\1/2\ E.,
Sec. 11, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, SE\1/4\,
and those portions of the N\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, and NE\1/
4\NW\1/4\ lying outside the Mt. Thielsen Wilderness Area boundary;
Sec. 12, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and those portions of the N\1/2\SW\1/4\,
SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\ lying outside the Mt. Thielsen
Wilderness Area boundary;
Sec. 13, lots 1 to 7, inclusive, and NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 14, NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
The area described contains approximately 949.43 acres in
Klamath County.
The lands described above continue to be withdrawn from location
and entry under the United States mining laws to protect the Forest
Service's Miller Lake Recreation Area. These lands have been and will
remain open to leasing under the mineral leasing laws.
2. Public Land Order No. 1144, which withdrew lands for Forest
Service recreation areas, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the
following described lands:
Willamette Meridian
Winema National Forest
T. 27 S., R. 6\1/2\ E.,
Sec. 11, W\1/2\W\1/2\, and those portions of the NE\1/4\ and
N\1/2\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ lying within the Mt. Thielsen Wilderness Area
boundary;
Sec. 12, those portions of the SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\ lying
within the Mt. Thielsen Wilderness Area boundary.
The areas described aggregate approximately 325 acres in Klamath
County.
The lands described above will remain closed to surface entry,
mining, and mineral leasing by the overlapping Mt. Thielsen Wilderness
Area withdrawal.
3. At 8:30 a.m. on May 21, 1998, the lands described in paragraph 1
will be opened 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 laws.
Dated: April 2, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-10515 Filed 4-20-98; 8:45 am]
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