Proclamation 2290—Enlarging the Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas certain public lands contiguous to the Dinosaur National Monument, established by Proclamation of October 4, 1915, have situated thereon various objects of historic and scientific interest; and

Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve such lands as an addition to the said Dinosaur National Monument:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by sec. 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 431), do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, the following-described lands in Colorado and Utah are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws and added to and made a part of the Dinosaur National Monument:

COLORADO

SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 6 N., R. 99 W.,

sec. 5, W½,

secs. 6 and 7,

sec. 8, W½,

sec. 17, W½,

secs. 18 and 19,

sec. 20, W½,

sec. 29, W½,

secs. 30 and 31,

sec. 32, W½; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 6 N., R. 100 W., secs. 1 to 30 and 33 to 36, inclusive;

T. 6 N., R. 101 W., secs. 1 to 30, inclusive: (partly unsurveyed)

T. 7 N., R. 101 W., secs. 25 to 36, Inclusive; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 6 N., R. 102 W., secs. 1 to 30 inclusive; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 7 N., R. 102 W., secs. 5 to 8, 17 to 20, and 25 to 36, inclusive; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 8 N., R. 102 W., secs. 5 to 8, 17 to 20, and 27 to 34, Inclusive; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 9 N., R. 102 W., secs. 16 to 21, and 28 to 33, inclusive; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 6 N., R. 103 W.,

secs. 1 to 14, inclusive;

secs. 23 and 24;

T. 7 N., R. 103 W., all; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 8 N., R. 103 W.,

sec. 1,

sec. 2, E½,

sec. 11, E½,

secs. 12 to 15, 22 to 28, and 32 to 36, inclusive; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 9 N., R. 103 W., secs. 13, 24, 25 and 36;

T. 6 N., R. 104 W., secs. 1, 2,11 and 12; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 7 N., R. 104 W., all;

UTAH

SALT LAKE MERIDIAN

T. 4 S., R. 23 E.,

secs. 9 to 16 and 21 to 25, inclusive;

sec. 26, N½, E½SE¼, SW¼SE¼W½SW¼, SE¼SW¼

secs. 27, 28, and those parts of secs. 34 and 35 north of Green River; (partly unsurveyed)

T. 3 S., R. 24 E., secs. 25, 26, 35 and 36;

T. 4 S., R. 24 E., secs. 1 to 3, and 7 to 30; inclusive, (partly unsurveyed)

T. 3 S., R. 25 E.,

sec. 11, E½,

secs. 12 and 13,

sec. 14, E½,

secs. 20 to 36; inclusive, (partly unsurveyed)

T. 4 S., R. 25 E., secs. 1 to 12, inclusive, (partly unsurveyed) aggregating 203,885 acres.

Warning is hereby expressly given to any unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

The reservation made by this proclamation supersedes as to any of the above-described lands affected thereby, the temporary withdrawal for classification and for other purposes made by Executive Order No. 5684 of August 12, 1931, and the Executive order of April 17, 1926, and the Executive order of September 8, 1933, creating Water Reserves No. 107 and No. 152.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916, 39 Stat. 535 (U.S.C., title 16, secs. 1 and 2) and acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof, except that this reservation shall not affect the operation of the Federal Water Power Act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1063), as amended, and the administration of the monument shall be subject to the Reclamation Withdrawal of October 17, 1904, for the Brown's Park Reservoir Site in connection with the Green River project.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this 14" day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.