[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 88 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25231-25232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12159]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0070; OR-22155 (WA)]


Public Land Order No. 7328; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
October 29, 1910; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive order in its entirety, as it 
affects the remaining 20.36 acres of public lands withdrawn for Bureau 
of Land Management Powersite Reserve No. 158. The lands are no longer 
needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. This action will 
open 11.38 acres to surface entry. The remaining 8.98 acres are 
included in an overlapping withdrawal and will remain closed to surface 
entry. All of the lands have been and will remain open to mining and 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 6, 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 October 29, 1910, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 158, is hereby revoked in its entirety:

Willamette Meridian

T. 32 N., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 24, lots 15 to 19, inclusive, and those portions of lots 9 
and 12 lying in the W\1/2\NE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 20.36 acres in 
Snohomish County.

    2. The following described lands are included in the Skagit Wild 
and Scenic River withdrawal, and will remain closed to surface entry:

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Willamette Meridian

T. 32 N., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 24, lots 16 to 19, inclusive, and a portion of lot 12.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 8.98 acres in 
Snohomish County.

    3. At 8:30 a.m. on August 6, 1998, the lands described in paragraph 
1, except as provided by paragraph 2, will be opened to the operation 
of the public land laws generally, 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 August 6, 1998, shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be 
considered in the order of filing.
    4. The State of Washington has a preference right for public 
highway rights-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: April 17, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-12159 Filed 5-6-98; 8:45 am]
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