Public land orders: Montana,

[Federal Register: December 21, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 244)]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT-924-1430-ET; MTM 41226]

Public Land Order No. 7421; Partial Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated November 24, 1933; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

SUMMARY: This order revokes a Secretarial order insofar as it affects 40 acres of public land withdrawn for the Bureau of Land Management's Public Water Reserve No. 107, Interpretation No. 192. The land does not qualify for a public water reserve and the revocation is needed to permit disposal of the land through exchange. With this revocation, there is no remaining land withdrawn under this Secretarial order in the state of Montana. The land has been open to metalliferous mining and mineral leasing under the terms of the withdrawal, but is temporarily closed to surface entry and all mining due to a pending legislated land exchange.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 21, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Russ Sorensen, Dillon Field Office, 1005 Selway Drive, Dillon, Montana 59725-9431, 406-683-2337 or Sandra Ward, BLM Montana State Office, P.O. Box 36800, Billings, Montana 59107, 406-896-5052.

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 Secretarial Order dated November 24, 1933, which withdrew public land for the Bureau of Land Management's Public Water Reserve No. 107, Interpretation No. 192, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

   Principal Meridian, Montana

   T. 13 S., R. 1 E.,

   Sec. 18, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.

   The area described contains 40 acres in Beaverhead County.

2. The above-described land is hereby made available for exchange under Section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1716 (1994).

   Dated: December 1, 1999. John Berry, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

   [FR Doc. 99-32973Filed12-20-99; 8:45 am]

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