Executive Order 9053—Withdrawing Public Lands for Use of the War Department as a Chemical Warfare Range

UTAH

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands in the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department as a chemical warfare range:

SALT LAKE MERIDIAN

Tps. 7 and 8 S., R. 10 W., partly unsurveyed;

Tps. 6, 7 and 8 S., R. 11 W., partly unsurveyed;

T. 8 S., R. 12 W., secs. 1 to 3, 10 to 15, 22 to 27, and 34 to 36, inclusive, partly unsurveyed.

The areas described, including both public and non-public lands, aggregate 126,720 acres.

It is intended that the lands reserved by this order shall be returned to the administration of the Department of the Interior when they are no longer needed for the purpose for which they are reserved.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 6, 1942.