Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 8916—Revoking Executive Order No. 1030 of February 24, 1909, and Withdrawing Certain Public Lands For Use of the Alaska Road Commission, Department of the Interior, For Aviation Purposes

October 11, 1941

ALASKA

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. Executive Order No. 1030 of February 24, 1909, reserving certain land near Copper Center, Alaska, for the joint use of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture for educational and agricultural experiment station purposes, is hereby revoked.

2. The following-described tracts of public land, comprising part of the land reserved by the above-mentioned order, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the Alaska Road Commission Department of The Intrior, for aviation purposes:

COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN

T. 2 N., R. 1 W., sec. 12, lots 7 and 10.

U.S. Survey No. 2186.

The areas described aggregate 117.77 acres.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
October 11, 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8916—Revoking Executive Order No. 1030 of February 24, 1909, and Withdrawing Certain Public Lands For Use of the Alaska Road Commission, Department of the Interior, For Aviation Purposes Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210654

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