[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 160 (Tuesday, August 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44136-44137]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21969]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-960-1990-00-CCAM; MTM 84500]


Public Land Order No. 7282; Withdrawal of Federal Lands and 
Minerals for Watershed Protection; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws approximately 22,065 acres of Federal 
lands from location and entry under the mining laws and the mineral 
leasing laws, except oil and gas, for a period of 20 years to protect 
watersheds, water quality, and fresh water fishery resources. In 
addition, approximately 4,158 acres of non-Federal lands, if acquired 
by the United States, would be withdrawn by this order. The lands have 
been and remain open to surface uses authorized by the Forest Service.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 19, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cooke City Area Mineral Withdrawal 
Team, PO Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-255-0322.
    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, Federal lands within the 
following described area are hereby withdrawn from location and entry 
under the United States mining laws and the mineral leasing laws, 
except oil and gas, 30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994), to protect watersheds 
within the drainages of the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone, Soda Butte 
Creek, and the Stillwater River, and the water quality and fresh water 
fishery resources within Yellowstone National Park:

Principal Meridian, Montana

Custer and Gallatin National Forests

T. 8 S., R. 14 E.,
    Sec. 25 and secs. 33 to 36, inclusive, those portions lying 
outside of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Boundary, partly 
unsurveyed.
T. 9 S., R 14 E.,
    Secs. 1 to 5, inclusive, secs. 8 to 17, inclusive, secs. 21 to 
28, inclusive, and secs. 33 to 36, inclusive, those portions

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lying outside of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and Yellowstone 
National Park boundaries.
T. 8 S., R. 15 E.,
    Secs. 30 to 32, those portions lying outside of the Absaroka-
Beartooth Wilderness Boundary.
T. 9 S., R. 15 E.,
    Sec. 5, that portion lying outside of the Absaroka-Beartooth 
Wilderness Boundary;
    Secs. 6 and 7;
    Secs. 8 and 17, those portions lying outside of the Absaroka-
Beartooth Wilderness Boundary;
    Secs. 18 to 21, inclusive;
    Sec. 22, lots 1, 2, and 3, N\1/2\, SW\1/4\, and bed of Kersey 
Lake riparian to lots 1, 2, and 3;
    Sec. 23, lots 2 and 3, N\1/2\, E\1/2\SE\1/4\, and bed of Kersey 
Lake riparian to lots 2 and 3;
    Sec. 26, bed of Kersey Lake riparian to the NW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 27, lots 1 and 2, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, and bed of Kersey 
Lake riparian to lots 1 and 2;
    Sec. 28, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, lots 6 to 9 inclusive, S\1/
2\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\SW\1/4\, and those portions of lot 5 and SE\1/
4\SE\1/4\ lying outside of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness 
Boundary;
    Secs. 29 to 32, inclusive;
    Secs. 33 and 34, those portions lying outside of the Absaroka-
Beartooth Wilderness Boundary.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 22,065 acres in Park 
County.

    2. All non-Federal lands lying within the area described in 
paragraph 1, if subsequently acquired by the United States, will be 
subject to the terms and conditions of this withdrawal. The areas 
aggregate approximately 4,158 acres in Park County.
    3. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining and mineral 
leasing laws, except oil and gas.
    4. 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: August 14, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-21969 Filed 8-18-97; 8:45 am]
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