[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 250 (Thursday, December 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-33246]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-958-1430-ET; HAG01-0025; WA-19679]


Public Land Order No. 7475; Partial Revocation of the Geological 
Survey; Order Dated July 25, 1952; Washington

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a Geological Survey order insofar 
as it affects 1,159.54 acres of lands withdrawn for Bureau of Land 
Management Power Site Classification No. 426. The lands are no longer 
needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. This action will 
open 56.22 acres to surface entry. These lands have been and will 
remain open to mining and mineral leasing. The remaining 1,103.32 acres 
of lands are included in overlapping withdrawals or have been conveyed 
out of Federal ownership, and will remain closed to surface entry and 
mining.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 12, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth J. 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 Geological Survey Order dated July 25, 1952, which 
established Power Site Classification No. 426, is hereby revoked 
insofar as it affects the following described lands:

Willamette Meridian

T. 3 N., R. 18 E.,
    Sec. 22, N\1/2\NE\1/4\ and SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 4 N., R. 22 E.,
    Sec. 23, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
T. 4 N., R. 23 E.,
    Sec. 12, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 18, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 5 N., R. 24 E.,
    Sec. 32, S\1/2\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\ and S\1/2\N\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    sec. 34, S\1/2\S\1/2\S\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 35, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 36, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\.
T. 5 N., R. 25 E.,
    Sec. 12, lot 2;
    Sec. 13, lot 5;
    Sec. 14, lots 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9;
    Sec. 22, lot 9.
T. 5 N., R. 26 E.,
    Sec. 12, W\1/2\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/
4\, W\1/2\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, and 
SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 1,159.54 acres in Benton and 
Klickitat Counties.

    2. At 8:30 a.m., on January 12, 2001, the following described 
lands, which are included in paragraph 1, will be opened to the 
operation of the public land laws generally, subject to valid and 
existing rights, other segregations of record, and the requirements of 
applicable law.

Willamette Meridian

T. 4 N., R. 23 E.,
    Sec. 12, NW\1/4\NW\1/4\ SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 18, N\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\ and N\1/2\S\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\.
T. 5 N., R. 25 E.,
    Sec. 14, lots 6 and 8.

    The areas described aggregate 56.22 acres in Benton and 
Klickitat Counties.

    3. The lands described in paragraph 1, excluding those described in 
paragraph 2, are within the John Day Lock and Dam Project, the Umatilla 
National Wildlife Refuge, or have been conveyed out of Federal 
ownership, and will remain closed to surface entry and mining.

    Dated: December 19, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 00-33246 Filed 12-27-00; 8:45 am]
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