Public Land Order No. 7226; Partial Revocation Executive Order No. 5237 and Revocation of Public Land Order No. 5739; Montana

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This order revokes an Executive order insofar as it affects 524.61 acres of public lands withdrawn by the Bureau of Land Management for classification of Federal oil shale reserves. This order also revokes a public land order in its entirety as to 297.76 acres withdrawn for the Bannack National Historic District. The lands are no longer needed for these purposes, and the revocations are needed to transfer the lands to the State of Montana under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. This action will open the oil shale lands to surface entry and nonmetalliferous mining and the Bannack lands to mining, unless closed by overlapping withdrawals or temporary segregations of record. The oil shale lands have been and will remain open to metalliferous mining. All the lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.