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Executive Order 10291—Establishing an Airspace Reservation Over the Savannah River Plant of the United States Atomic Energy Commission

September 25, 1951

By virtue of an pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 4 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (44 Stat. 570), the airspace above the following-described portion of the United States is hereby reserved and set apart for national defense and other governmental purposes as an airspace reservation within which no person shall navigate an aircraft except by authority of the United States Atomic Energy Commission:

All that area in the States of Georgia and South Carolina lying within the following-described boundaries:

SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT

Beginning at Latitude 33°22'45", Longitude 81° 24'30"; thence south to Latitude 33 °14'30", Longitude 81° 24'00"; thence southerly to Latitude 33° 08'30", Longitude 81° 22'36"; thence southwest to Latitude 33° 05'00", Longitude 81° 32'00" at Millettville; thence southwest to Latitude 33° 02'40", Longitude 81° 42'48" at Girard; thence northwest along the old Savannah-Augusta Highway to Telfairville at Latitude 33° 05'18", Longitude 81° 48'48"; thence northwest to Latitude 33° 25'00", Longitude 81° 53'30"; thence northeast to Latitude 33° 27'30", Longitude 81° 48'55"; thence due east to Latitude 33° 27'30", Longitude 81° 33'55"; thence southeast to Latitude 33° 22'45", Longitude 81° 24'30", the point of beginning.

Any person navigating an aircraft within this airspace reservation in violation of the provisions of this order will be subject to the penalties prescribed in the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 973), as amended.

This order shall become effective on October 3, 1951.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 25, 1951

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 10291—Establishing an Airspace Reservation Over the Savannah River Plant of the United States Atomic Energy Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278450

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