Multiple Use, Mining; Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is removing several obsolete or unnecessary regulations, and revising regulations concerning mining on Papago Indian Reservation lands. The regulations BLM is removing concern certain programs under the Multiple Minerals Development Act: claimant's rights; opening of Helium reserves to mining location and mineral leasing; and regulations under the statute entitled ``Mining Rights in Prescott National Forest'' concerning mining in the watershed of the city of Prescott, Arizona. Each of the regulations being removed is unnecessary or obsolete, either because it describes programs which no longer exist or because it contains requirements already achieved by statutes or other applicable regulations. Removing these items will have no impact on BLM customers or the public at large.