[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 149 (Tuesday, August 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41587-41588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20762]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[OR-958-1430-01; GP7-0139; OR-19111]


Public Land Order No. 7350; Revocation of Executive Order Dated 
August 16, 1917; Oregon

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 to 
the remaining 98 acres of lands withdrawn for Bureau of Land Management 
Powersite Reserve No. 653. The lands are no longer needed for the 
purpose for which they were withdrawn. Of the lands being revoked, 59 
acres will be opened to surface entry, except to the agricultural land 
laws. Of the remaining lands, 21 acres will remain closed to surface 
entry and mining due to other overlapping withdrawals, 6 acres have 
been conveyed out of Federal ownership with a reservation of all 
minerals to the United States, and 12 acres have been conveyed out of 
Federal ownership and have no remaining reservations to the United 
States.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 3, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth St. Mary, BLM Oregon/
Washington State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 
503-952-6168.
    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 August 16, 1917, which established 
Powersite Reserve No. 653, is hereby revoked in its entirety.

Willamette Meridian

(a) Public Lands

    All portions of the following described lands lying within 50 
feet of the center line of the transmission line:

T. 34 S., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 4, unnumbered lot in the NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
N\1/2\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, E\1/2\W\1/2\;
    Sec. 29, W\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 35 S., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 4, S\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\.
T. 33 S., R. 6 W.,

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    Sec. 10, E\1/2\SW\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 33 S., R. 1 E.,
    Sec. 32, N\1/2\NE\1/4\.
T. 33 S., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 18, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 39 S., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 28, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 40 S., R. 3 E.,
    Sec. 6, N\1/2\SE\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 26, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\ and W\1/2\SW\1/4\.
T. 41 S., R. 4 E.,
    Sec. 6, lot 7;
    Sec. 8, S\1/2\SW\1/4\.
T. 40 S., R. 8 E.,
    Sec. 22, lot 4;
    Sec. 32, S\1/2\NE\1/4\.
T. 41 S., R. 8 E.,
    Sec. 8, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, and W\1/
2\SE\1/4\.

(b) Non-Federal Surface

    All portions of the following described lands lying within 50 
feet of the center line of the transmission line:

T. 37 S., R. 2 W.,
    Sec. 31, lots 4 and 5, and lots 7 to 16, inclusive.
T. 36 S., R. 3 W.,
    Sec. 24, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 34 S., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 32, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 35 S., R. 5 W.,
    Sec. 28, lot 1.
T. 33 S., R. 2 E.,
    Sec. 2, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 98 acres in Jackson, 
Josephine, and Klamath counties.

    2. The lands described as the N\1/2\SE\1/4\ and SW\1/4\SE\1/4\ of 
sec. 6, T. 40 S., R. 3 E., and lot 7 of sec. 6, and the S\1/2\SW\1/4\ 
of sec. 8, T. 41 S., R. 4 E., are within Power Project 2082 and remain 
closed to surface entry and mining, but remain open to mineral leasing.
    3. The lands described as SE\1/4\SW\1/4\ of sec. 18, T. 33 S., R. 2 
E., are within the Lost Creek Reservoir Project withdrawal and remain 
closed to surface entry and mining, but remain open to mineral leasing.
    4. The lands described in paragraph 1(a), except as provided in 
paragraphs 2 and 3, are included in a withdrawal for multiple use 
management made by Public Land Order No. 5490, as modified by Public 
Land Order No. 7043, and will remain closed to the agricultural land 
laws.
    5. The lands described as lots 4 and 5, and lots 7 to 16, 
inclusive, sec. 31, T. 37 S., R. 2 W., have been conveyed out of 
Federal ownership with a reservation of all minerals to the United 
States. The lands will not be restored to operation of the public land 
laws, but have been and will remain open to mining and mineral leasing.
    6. The lands described in paragraph 1(b), except as provided in 
paragraph 5, have been conveyed out of Federal ownership with no 
remaining reservations to the United States.
    7. At 8:30 a.m., on November 3, 1998, the lands described in 
paragraph 1(a), except as provided in paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 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 November 3, 
1998, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those 
received thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing.
    8. The State of Oregon has a preference right, as to the lands 
referenced in paragraph 7, for public highway right-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: July 22, 1998.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 98-20762 Filed 8-3-98; 8:45 am]
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