[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 164 (Thursday, August 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49943-49944]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16873]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ID-933-1430-ET; DK-G05-0002, IDI-08612, et al.]


Public Land Order No. 7644; Revocation of 4 Bureau of Reclamation 
Orders and 2 Public Land Orders; Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes 4 Bureau of Reclamation Orders and 2 Public 
Land Orders in their entirety as they affect 6,785.75 acres of lands 
withdrawn for the Minidoka Reclamation Project. This order opens 
2,767.04 acres of public lands to all forms of appropriation under the 
public land laws, and 4,018.71 acres of lands to such uses as may be 
authorized by law on National Forest System lands. This order also 
opens all of the lands to the mining laws.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 26, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jackie Simmons, BLM Idaho State 
Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709, 208-373-3867.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of the original withdrawal orders 
containing a legal description of the lands involved are available from 
the BLM Idaho State Office at the address above.

Order

    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 (2000), it is ordered as follows:
    1. The following Bureau of Reclamation Orders and Public Land 
Orders, which withdrew a total of (a) 2,767.04 acres of public lands, 
and (b) 4,018.71 acres of National Forest System

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lands, for the Minidoka Reclamation Project, are hereby revoked in 
their entirety: Bureau of Reclamation Orders dated September 6, 1956 
(22 FR 2741), January 25, 1957 (22 FR 1968), June 21, 1957 (23 FR 
8361), and September 5, 1957 (23 FR 2130), and Public Land Order No's. 
2170 (25 FR 7497), and 3083 (28 FR 5051).
    2. At 9 a.m. on September 26, 2005, the lands referenced as (a) in 
Paragraph 1 will be opened to all forms of appropriation under 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 9 a.m. on September 26, 2005 shall be considered as 
simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be 
considered in the order of filing.
    3. At 9 a.m. on September 26, 2005, the lands referenced as (b) in 
Paragraph 1 will be opened to such forms of disposition as may be 
authorized by law on National Forest System lands, subject to valid 
existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, other 
segregations of record, and the requirements of applicable law.
    4. At 9 a.m. on September 26, 2005, all of the lands referenced in 
Paragraph 1 will be opened to location and entry under the United 
States mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the 
requirements of applicable law. Appropriation of any of the lands 
identified in this order under the general mining laws prior to the 
date and time of restoration is unauthorized. Any such attempted 
appropriation, including attempted adverse possession is governed by 
State law where not in conflict with Federal law. The Bureau of Land 
Management will not intervene in disputes between rival locators over 
possessory rights since Congress has provided for such determinations 
in local courts.

    Dated: August 11, 2005.
Rebecca W. Watson,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 05-16873 Filed 8-24-05; 8:45 am]
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