[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 8263]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4391]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
(CO-935-1430-01; COC-28582, COC-0123470)


Public Land Order No. 7244; Partial Revocation of Secretarial 
Order Dated March 25, 1910, Which Established Power Site Reserve No. 
133; Opening of Land Under Section 24 of the Federal Power Act in the 
Secretarial Order Dated July 12, 1957, Which Established Power Project 
No. 2204; Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial order insofar as it affects 
600 acres of public lands withdrawn for Powersite Reserve No. 133. The 
waterpower potential in these lands has been fully developed. These 
lands have been open to mineral leasing and, under the provisions of 
the Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955, to mining. These 
provisions are no longer required. This order also opens 359.57 acres 
of lands withdrawn for Power Project No. 2204, subject to Section 24 of 
the Federal Power Act, to disposal to the Project licensee. The 
revocation and opening actions will allow for consummation of a pending 
land exchange with the Denver Water Board. All of the lands continue to 
be segregated by an exchange application.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076, 303-239-
3706.
    1. 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 (1988) it is ordered as follows:
    The Secretarial Order dated March 25, 1910, which established Power 
Site Reserve No. 133, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the 
following described public lands:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 1 N., R. 79 W.,
    Sec. 14, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 23, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\W\1/2\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\, NE\1/
4\SE\1/4\, and W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 25, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 26, NE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 600 acres in Grand County.

    At 9:00 a.m. on March 26, 1997, the lands described above are 
relieved of the segregative effects of Power Site Reserve No. 133. The 
lands remain segregated by an exchange application.
    2. By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the 
Interior by the Act of June 10, 1920, Section 24, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 
818 (1988), and pursuant to the determination by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission in DVCO-546, it is ordered as follows:
    At 9:00 a.m. on March 26, 1997, the following described public 
lands withdrawn by Secretarial Order dated July 12, 1957, which 
established Power Project No. 2204, will be opened to disposal by land 
exchange to the Denver Water Board only, subject to the provisions of 
Section 24 of the Federal Power Act, valid existing rights, the 
provisions of existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and 
the requirements of applicable law:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 1 N., R. 78 W.,
    Sec. 19, lot 2 lying West of County Road 3.
T. 1 N., R. 79 W.,
    Sec. 27, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\ lying 
East of County Road 33;
    Sec. 34, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ lying East of County 
Road 33;
    Sec. 35, W\1/2\NW\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 359.57 acres in 
Grand County.

    3. The State of Colorado, with respect to the lands described in 
paragraphs 1 and 2, has waived its preference right to file for the 
public highway rights-of-way or material sites, as provided by the Act 
of June 10, 1920, Section 24 as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1988).

    Dated: February 4, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-4391 Filed 2-21-97; 8:45 am]
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