Land Management Bureau September 12, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to extend the duration of Public Land Order (PLO) No. 6802, issued in 1990, and extended by PLO No. 7534 for an additional 12 year period. PLO No. 6802 withdrew 4,255.50 acres of public land in Nye County from location and entry under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. 2), and from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, to maintain the physical integrity of the subsurface environment at Yucca Mountain.

Public Land Order No. 1579, which withdrew lands within National Forests and reserved them for use of the Forest Service for administrative sites and recreational areas, was partially revoked as to 3,613 acres by Public Land Order No. 7663. This order opens those previously withdrawn lands to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System lands and to mining.