[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2091.5-3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2090_SPECIAL LAWS AND RULES--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart 2091_Segregation and Opening of Lands
 
Sec. 2091.5-3  Segregative effect and opening: Emergency withdrawals.

    (a) When the Secretary determines that an emergency exists and 
extraordinary measures need to be taken to preserve values that would 
otherwise be lost, a withdrawal is made immediately in accordance with 
Sec. 2310.5 of this title. Emergency withdrawals are effective on the 
date the Public Land

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Order making the withdrawal is signed, and cannot exceed 3 years in 
duration and may not be extended.
    (b) The lands covered by an emergency withdrawal are opened 
automatically on the date of expiration of the withdrawal unless 
segregation is effected by the publication in the Federal Register of a 
notice of a withdrawal application or proposal.