[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National Forest System lands withdrawn by a public land order for the 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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