[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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.