Executive Order 9086—Withdrawing Public Lands for Use of the War Department as a General Bombing Range

NEVADA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of July 9, 1918, c. 143, 40 Stat. 845, 848 (U.S.C. title 10, sec. 1341), 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that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands in the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department as a general bombing range:

MOUNT DIABLO MERIDIAN

Tps. 1, 2, 3, and 4 S., R. 44 E.;
Tps. 1, 2, 3, and 4 S., R. 45 E.

The areas described, including both public and non-public lands, aggregate 184,371.28 acres.

This order shall take precedence over, but shall not rescind or revoke, the order of the Secretary of the Interior of November 24, 1937, withdrawing certain public lands for a proposed grazing district, so far as such order affects any of the public lands in the above-described areas.

It is intended that the lands described herein shall be returned to the administration of the Department of the Interior when they are no longer needed for the purposes for which they are reserved.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
March 4, 1942.