[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 61 (Thursday, March 30, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 16384-16385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7813]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
43 CFR Public Land Order 7128

[UT-942-1430-01; UTU-2036, UTU-4061, UTU-42919]


Partial Revocation of Executive Order No. 5327, Public Land Order 
No. 4522, and Secretarial Order of June 11, 1943; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes an Executive order, a Secretarial order, 
and a public land order insofar as they affect 828.13 acres withdrawn 
for protection of oil shale resources (798.13 acres) and a first form 
reclamation withdrawal (30 acres). The lands are no longer needed for 
these purposes and the revocation is needed to permit disposal of the 
lands through public sale under Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976. This action will open the lands to surface 
entry and mining unless closed by overlapping withdrawals or temporary 
segregations of record. The lands have been and will remain open to 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 1, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Randy Massey, BLM Utah State Office, 
P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155, 801-539-4119.
    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. Executive Order No. 5327 and Public Land Order No. 4522, which 
withdrew public land for protection of oil shale and associated values, 
are hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described lands:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 5 S., R. 19 E.,
    Sec. 12, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\N\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, and S\1/
2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 7 S., R. 19 E.,
    Sec. 1, lots 2 to 4, inclusive, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 7 S., R. 20 E., [[Page 16385]] 
    Sec. 5, lots 3 and 4, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, and SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 6, lots 1 and 2;
    Sec. 15, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 798.13 acres in Uintah County.

    2. Secretarial Order, dated June 11, 1943, which withdrew public 
land for the Jensen Unit of the Central Utah Project, for the Bureau of 
Reclamation, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following 
described land:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 3 S., R. 22 E.,
    Sec. 11, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and S\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 30 acres in Uintah County.

    3. At 9 a.m. on May 1, 1995, the lands described in paragraphs 1 
and 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 9 a.m. 
on May 1, 1995 shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that 
time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order of 
filing.
    4. At 9 a.m. on May 1, 1995, the lands described in paragraphs 1 
and 2 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 
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: March 21, 1995.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 95-7813 Filed 3-29-95; 8:45 am]
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