Executive Order 8330—Withdrawal of Public Land in Aid of Flood Control

ALASKA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and subject to the conditions therein expressed and to valid existing rights, it is ordered that the following-described public land in Alaska be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for flood-control purposes in connection with the Lowell Creek flood-control project, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, as authorized by the act of August 25, 1937, c. 773, 50 Stat. 806:

All the unsurveyed public land between Mineral Survey No. 981, Alaska, and Resurrection Bay, lying northeast of a line drawn through U.S. Location Monument No. 726, running S. 34°28' E., and N. 34°28' W., containing less than one acre.

This order shall continue in force until revoked by the President or by act of Congress.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 24, 1940.