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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UT-942-1430-01; UTU 75302]

 
Public Land Order No. 7402; Transfer of Jurisdiction, Arches 
National Park Expansion; Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order transfers jurisdiction of 3,140 acres of public 
land from the Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service 
for the expansion of Arches National Park. This transfer of 
jurisdiction is directed by the Arches National Park Expansion Act of 
1998 (Pub. L. 105-329).

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 29, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary von Koch, BLM Moab Field Office, 
82 East Dogwood Avenue, Moab, Utah 84532, 435-259-2128.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by Public Law 105-329, it is ordered as follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, jurisdiction of the following 
described public land, depicted on the map entitled ``Boundary Map, 
Arches National Park, Lost Spring Canyon Addition'', numbered 138/
60,000-B, and dated April 1997, is hereby transferred to the National 
Park Service for the expansion of Arches National Park:

Salt Lake Meridian

    Those lands, within the indicated lots and aliquot parts, lying 
below the 4600-foot contour line, except as noted:

T. 23 S., R. 21 E.,
    Sec. 13, E\1/2\SW\1/4\ and W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 23, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 24, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, 
S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and S\1/2\.
T. 23 S., R. 22 E.,
    Sec. 18, lots 1, 2, and 3, lots 5 to 8, inclusive, NE\1/4\SW\1/
4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and W\1/2\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 19, lots 1 to 8, inclusive, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NW\1/
4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/
4\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, and E\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, N\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\SE\1/
4\NE\1/4\, and W\1/2\, deviating on the east from the 4600-foot 
contour line;
    Sec. 30, lots 1 to 8, inclusive, E\1/2\W\1/2\, and E\1/2\.

    Those lands, within the indicated aliquot parts, lying below the 
4800-foot contour line:

T. 23 S., R. 22 E.,
    Sec. 20, SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 21, N\1/2\N\1/2\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\N\1/2\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SW\1/
4\, and W\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 28, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, N\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\S\1/2\NW\1/4\, and 
N\1/2\NW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 29.

    The area described contains approximately 3,140 acres in Grand 
County.

    2. The following described State land is adjacent to Arches 
National Park:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 23 S., R. 22 E.,
    Sec. 16.

    The area described contains 640 acres in Grand County.

    In the event the land described above returns to Federal ownership, 
jurisdiction of the land would automatically be transferred to the 
National Park Service, upon acquisition, for expansion of Arches 
National Park.
    3. Future use of the land described in Paragraph 1 and the land 
described in Paragraph 2, if acquired by the United States, shall be in 
accordance with and subject to the provisions of Public Law 92-155, as 
amended by Public Law 105-329.

    Dated: July 15, 1999.
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-19337 Filed 7-28-99; 8:45 am]
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