[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26528-26529]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13200]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-046-1430-01; AZA 23060]


Public Land Order No. 7197; Withdrawal of Public Lands for the 
Waterman Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern; Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws public lands from surface entry and 
mining for a period of 50 years for the Bureau of Land Management to 
protect the endangered Nichol Turk's Head Cactus

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within the Waterman Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern. 
The lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 28, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tony Herrell, BLM Tucson Resource 
Area, 12661 East Broadway, Tucson, Arizona 85748, 520-722-4289.
    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. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
lands are hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1988)), but not from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws, to protect the Bureau of Land Management's Waterman 
Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

T. 12 S., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 29, lots 3 and 4, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/
4\SW\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 30, lots 1 to 5, inclusive, lot 9, that portion of lot 10 
lying outside of Mineral Patent No. 02-79-0008, lot 11, S\1/2\NE\1/
4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, N\1/2\N\1/2\SE\1/4\, SE\1/
4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 31, lots 3 and 4, those portions of lots 5 and 8 lying 
outside of Mineral Patent No. 02-79-0008, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, 
SE\1/4\NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, 
NW\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\S\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, 
SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 32, Mineral Survey No. 3885;
    Sec. 33, N\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
N\1/2\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, S\1/2\S\1/2\SW\1/4\, and W\1/2\W\1/2\SE\1/4\.
T. 13 S., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 5, W\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 6, lots 1 to 7, inclusive, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 2,335.21 acres in Pima County.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of the lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 50 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) (1988), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: May 20, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-13200 Filed 5-24-96; 8:45 am]
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