Public land orders: Oregon,

[Federal Register: March 17, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 51)]

[Notices]

[Page 13069-13070]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-958-0777-63; GP7-0063; ORE-017791]

Public Land Order No. 7322; Modification and Partial Revocation of Public Land Order No. 4145; Oregon

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

SUMMARY: This order modifies a public land order to establish a 20-year term as to 20 acres of National Forest System land withdrawn for the Forest Service's West Eagle Meadow Campground in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. The land has been and remains closed to mining. This order also revokes the public land order insofar as it affects the remaining 49.82 acres, which will be opened to mining. All of the land has been and remains open to surface entry and mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 16, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty McCarthy, BLM Oregon/Washington State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.

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. Public Land Order No. 4145 is hereby modified to expire 20 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) (1994), the Secretary determines that the withdrawal shall be extended insofar as it affects the following described land:

   Willamette Meridian

   Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

   West Eagle Meadow Campground

   T. 5 S., R. 43 E., unsurveyed,

   Sec. 32, S\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.

   The area described contains 20 acres in Union County.

   The land described above continues to be withdrawn from location and entry under the mining laws, but has been and remains open to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System land, including leasing under the mineral leasing laws to protect the Forest Service's West Eagle Meadow Campground.

2. Public Land Order No. 4145 is hereby revoked insofar as it affects the following described land:

   Willamette Meridian

   Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

   West Eagle Meadow Campground

   T. 5 S., R. 43 E., unsurveyed,

   Sec. 32, N\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and S\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\. T. 6 S., R. 43 E.,

   Sec. 5, NE\1/4\ of lot 4.

   The area described contains approximately 49.82 acres in Union and Baker Counties.

3. At 8:30 a.m. on April 16, 1998, the land described in paragraph 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

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   applicable law. Appropriation of any of the land described in paragraph 2 of 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 (1994), 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 5, 1998. Bob Armstrong, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

   [FR Doc. 98-6844Filed3-16-98; 8:45 am]

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