Proposed Rules. Public land order
/register/2000/10/16/00-26427·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Agency: Bureau of Land Management, Interior
Action: Public land order
Citation: FR Doc. 00-26427 · MT-924-1430-ET; MTM 40641 et. al.
Summary
This order revokes 13 Executive orders in their entirety as they affect approximately 4,649,902 acres of public and National Forest System lands withdrawn for coal and phosphate classification purposes. The lands are no longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. This action will open the public lands to surface entry and nonmetalliferous mining subject to other segregations of record. The lands located within the National Forests will be opened to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System lands and nonmetalliferous mining subject to other segregations of record. All of the lands have been and remain open to metalliferous mining and mineral leasing. EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 2000.