[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 110 (Monday, June 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31450-31451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14927]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[AK-931-1430-01; AA-8964, AA-11330]
Public Land Order No. 7263; Transfer of Administrative
Jurisdiction of Public Lands; Alaska
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This order transfers administrative jurisdiction of
approximately 8.94 acres of public lands located within the boundaries
of the Tongass National Forest from the Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management to the Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service for a period of 20 years in order to provide the Forest Service
with the opportunity to pursue legislation to have the lands
permanently returned to the Tongass National Forest. The lands are
unpatented homesites that were excluded from the Forest by previous
Executive orders.
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley J. Macke, BLM Alaska State
Office, 222 W. 7th Avenue, No. 13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599, 907-
271-3266.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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, administrative jurisdiction of
the following described lands is hereby transferred from the Department
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, to the Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, to be included in the Tongass National
Forest, and to be managed in accordance with the various acts that
govern uses of National Forest System lands:
Copper River Meridian
(a) Fish Creek (AA-8964)
Executive Order No. 5947, dated November 16, 1932, excluded
Homesite No. 197 from the Tongass National Forest. The parcel, located
within sec. 23, T. 68 S., R. 99 E., is more particularly described by
metes and bounds as: Beginning at corner No. 1, Homesite No. 197, lying
westerly of the Salmon River Road on the right bank of Fish Creek, and
just northerly of its confluence with the Salmon River, at approximate
latitude 55 deg.56' North, longitude 130 deg.02' West; Thence N.
5 deg.30'
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W., 5.00 chs., paralleling Salmon River Road to corner No. 2; Thence
westerly 7.00 chs., to corner No. 3; Thence southerly, 7.06 chs., to
corner No. 4; Thence easterly 6.13 chs., to corner No. 5; Thence N.
33 deg. E., 2.50 chs., to corner No. 1, the point of beginning.
The area described contains approximately 5 acres.
(b) Farragut Bay (AA-11330)
Executive Order No. 5449, dated September 25, 1930, excluded
Homesite No. 42 from the Tongass National Forest. The parcel, located
within sec. 21, T. 55 S., R. 71 E., is more particularly described by
metes and bounds as: Beginning at the point for corner No. 1, a meander
corner on the easterly shore of Farragut Bay, at approximate latitude
57 deg.06' North, longitude 133 deg.10' West; Thence, with meanders
along the line of approximate mean high tide, S. 16 deg. E., 4.00 chs.,
S. 1\1/2\ deg. W., 2.00 chs., S. 11\1/2\ deg. W., 2.00 chs., S. 32\1/
2\ deg. W., 4.00 chs., to the point for corner No. 2, a meander corner;
Thence S., 53 deg. E., 2.71 chs., to the point for corner No. 3; Thence
with meanders along the line of approximate high tide, N. 18 deg. E.,
1.56 chs., N. 63\1/2\ deg. E., 4.00 chs., to the point for corner No.
4, a meander corner; Thence N., 10\1/2\ deg. W., 9.70 chs., to the
point for corner No. 5; Thence westerly 2.96 chs., to the point for
corner No. 1, the point of beginning.
The area described contains approximately 3.94 acres.
The total areas described in (a) and (b) aggregate approximately
8.94 acres.
2. In the event the lands are permanently returned to the Tongass
National Forest pursuant to legislative action, this order will
terminate simultaneously with the effective date of the legislation.
Otherwise, this order will expire 20 years from the effective date, and
administrative jurisdiction will return to the Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 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 order shall be extended.
Dated: May 28, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
[FR Doc. 97-14927 Filed 6-6-97; 8:45 am]
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