[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 244 (Wednesday, December 20, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 65582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-30840]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

43 CFR Public Land Order 7176

[CO-935-1430-01; COC-28255]


Partial Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated May 23, 1946; 
Colorado

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a Secretarial order insofar as it 
affects 160 acres of public land withdrawn for the Bureau of 
Reclamation's Gunnison-Arkansas Project. The land is no longer needed 
for reclamation purposes, and the partial revocation will allow for 
disposal by exchange. This action will open 160 acres to surface entry 
and mining unless closed by overlapping withdrawals or temporary 
segregations of record. The land has been and will remain open to 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 19, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexa Watson, BLM Colorado State 
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7076, 303-239-
3796.
    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:
    1. The Secretarial Order dated May 23, 1946, which withdrew public 
land for the Bureau of Reclamation's Gunnison-Arkansas Project, is 
hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 49 N., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 34, NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 160 acres in Gunnison County.

    2. At 9 a.m. on January 19, 1996, the land described in paragraph 1 
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 9 a.m. 
on January 19, 1996, 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 January 19, 1996, the land described 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 land described 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 under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1988), shall 
vest no rights against the United States. Acts required to establish a 
location and to initiate a right of possession are 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: December 8, 1995.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 95-30840 Filed 12-19-95; 8:45 am]
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