Notice2025-00362
Public Land Order No. 7959; Extension of Public Land Order No. 7628, Withdrawal of Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range; Wyoming
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Published
January 10, 2025
Effective
March 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
This Public Land Order (PLO) extends the duration of the withdrawal created by PLO No. 7628, which would otherwise expire March 7, 2025, for an additional 20-year period. PLO No. 7628 withdrew 1,960.10 acres of public lands in Big Horn County, Wyoming, from settlement, sale, location, or entry under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, to protect wild horse and wildlife habitat and watershed, recreation, cultural, and scenic values within the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range (PMWHR).
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 6 (Friday, January 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 2020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00362]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[PO4820000251; WYW-152420, WYWY106254191; MTM-31858, MTMT106114126]
Public Land Order No. 7959; Extension of Public Land Order No.
7628, Withdrawal of Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range; Wyoming
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public Land Order.
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SUMMARY: This Public Land Order (PLO) extends the duration of the
withdrawal created by PLO No. 7628, which would otherwise expire March
7, 2025, for an additional 20-year period. PLO No. 7628 withdrew
1,960.10 acres of public lands in Big Horn County, Wyoming, from
settlement, sale, location, or entry under the general land laws,
including the United States mining laws, subject to valid existing
rights, to protect wild horse and wildlife habitat and watershed,
recreation, cultural, and scenic values within the Pryor Mountain Wild
Horse Range (PMWHR).
DATES: This PLO takes effect on March 8, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nathaniel Arave, Field Manager, Bureau
of Land Management, Montana/Dakotas State Office, Billings Field
Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101, (406) 896-5013
or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f49a9586958291b4969899da939b82"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f29c9380938497b2909e9fdc959d84">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals in the United States who are deaf,
deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711
(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services
offered within their country to make international calls to the point-
of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose for which the withdrawal was
first made requires extension of the withdrawal to protect habitat for
wild horses and wildlife and watershed, recreation, cultural, and
scenic values within the PMWHR. The BLM has updated the legal
description of the lands to conform to Specifications for Descriptions
of Land Status (2017).
Order
By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior
by section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f), it is ordered as follows:
1. Subject to valid existing rights, PLO No. 7628 (70 FR 11271
(2005)), which withdrew 1,960.10 acres of public lands from settlement,
sale, location, or entry under the general land laws, including the
United States mining laws, for the protection of wild horse and
wildlife habitat and watershed, recreation, cultural, and scenic values
within the PMWHR, is hereby extended for an additional 20-year period.
The lands are described as follows:
Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming
T. 58 N., R. 95 W.,
Sec. 19, lot 2 and SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
Sec. 20, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\;
Sec. 21, lots 6 and 8, and SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 23, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 26, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\ and W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 27, S\1/2\;
Sec. 28, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, and S\1/2\;
Sec. 29, NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 33, NE\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 34, NW\1/4\.
The area described contains 1,960.10 acres.
2. The withdrawal extended by this Order will expire 20 years from
the effective date of this Order, unless, as a result of review
conducted prior to the expiration date pursuant to section 204(f) of
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f),
the Secretary determines that the withdrawal shall be further extended.
(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714)
Robert T. Anderson,
Solicitor.
[FR Doc. 2025-00362 Filed 1-8-25; 8:45 am]
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