[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 1629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-319]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MTM 91636]


Public Land Order No. 7757; Withdrawal of National Forest System 
Land for the Big Ice Cave; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 170 acres of National Forest System land 
from location and entry under the United States mining laws for a 
period of 20 years on behalf of the United States Forest Service to 
protect the Big Ice Cave, its subterranean water supply, and Federal 
improvements. The land has been and will remain open to such forms of 
disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System land and to 
mineral leasing.

DATES: Effective Date: January 11, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Bixler, U.S. Forest Service, 
Region 1, P.O. Box 7669, Missoula, Montana 59807, 406-329-3655, or 
Sandra Ward, Bureau of Land Management, Montana State Office, 5001 
Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101, 406-896-5052.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Forest Service will manage the land to 
protect the Big Ice Cave, its subterranean water supply, and Federal 
improvements. The Big Ice Cave is a unique geologic and hydrologic 
formation with important cultural and recreational values.

Order

    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, it is ordered as follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, the following-described 
National Forest System land is hereby withdrawn from location and entry 
under the United States mining laws, but not from leasing under the 
mineral leasing laws, to protect the Big Ice Cave, its subterranean 
water supply, and Federal improvements:

Custer National Forest

Principal Meridian, Montana

T. 8 S., R. 27 E.,
    Sec. 3, SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 10, N\1/2\N\1/2\NW\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 170 acres in Carbon County.

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

     Dated: December 17, 2010.
Wilma A. Lewis,
Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 2011-319 Filed 1-10-11; 8:45 am]
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