[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 238 (Thursday, December 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 65284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32419]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0192; OR-19100, OR-19117]


Public Land Order No. 7303; Revocation of Executive Orders Dated 
April 30, 1917, and November 26, 1917; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes in their entirety, two Executive orders 
which withdrew 120 acres of public lands for the Bureau of Land 
Management's Powersite Reserve Nos. 625 and 663. The lands are no 
longer needed for the purposes for which they were withdrawn. This 
action will open 120 acres to surface entry, except to the agricultural 
land laws due to an overlapping withdrawal. All of the lands have been 
and will remain open to mining and mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 12, 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. The Executive Order dated April 30, 1917, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 625, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 34 S., R. 1 E.,
    sec. 2, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 35 S., R. 1 E.,
    sec. 18, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 80 acres in Jackson County.

    2. The Executive Order dated November 26, 1917, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 663, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 2 S., R. 7 E.,
    sec. 33, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 40 acres in Clackamas County.

    3. The lands described in paragraphs 1 and 2 are included in a 
Bureau of Land Management withdrawal made by Public Land Order No. 
5490, as modified by Public Land Order Nos. 5542 and 7043 for multiple 
use, and will remain closed to the agricultural land laws.
    4. At 8:30 a.m., on March 12, 1998, the lands described in 
paragraphs 1 and 2, will be opened to the operation of the public land 
laws generally, except to the agricultural land laws, subject to valid 
existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law. All 
valid applications received at or prior to 8:30 a.m., on March 12, 
1998, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those 
received thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    5. The State of Oregon has a preference right, as to the lands 
described in paragraphs 1 and 2, for public highway right-of-way or 
material sites for a period of 90 days from the date of publication of 
this order and any location, entry, selection, or subsequent patent 
shall be subject to any rights granted the State as provided by the Act 
of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1994).

    Dated: November 28, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-32419 Filed 12-10-97; 8:45 am]
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