Executive Order 8954—Withdrawing Public Lands For the Use of the War Department

NEVADA By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America, 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that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands in the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department as machine gun ranges: TRACT A MOUNT DIABLO MERIDIAN T. 18 S., R. 61 E., secs. 13 to 36, inclusive; T. 19 S., R. 61 E., secs. 1 to 5, inclusive, N ½ sec. 6, N ½ sec. 9, and secs. 10 to 12, inclusive; T. 18 S., R. 62 E., secs. 13 to 36, inclusive; T. 19 S., R. 62 E., secs. 1 to 11, inclusive, W ½ sec. 12, and secs. 16 to 18, inclusive; T. 18 S., R. 63 E., lots 1 to 4, inclusive, W ½ E ½ and E ½ W ½ sec. 18; lots 1 to 4, inclusive, W ½ E ½ and E ½ W ½ sec. 19; lots 1 to 4, inclusive, W ½ NE ¼, E ½ W ½ and NW ¼ SE ¼ sec. 30; lots 1 to 4, inclusive, E ½ NW ¼ and NE ¼ SW ¼ sec. 31. TRACT B MOUNT DIABLO MERIDIAN T. 20 S., R. 62 E., sec. 1, E ½ sec. 11, secs. 12 to 14, inclusive, secs. 24, 25 and 36; T. 20 S., R. 63 E., W ½ sec. 2, secs. 3 to 5, inclusive, S ½ S ½ sec. 6, secs. 7 to 10, inclusive, W ½ sec. 11, W ½ sec. 14, secs. 15 to 22, inclusive, W ½ sec. 23, W ½ sec. 26, secs. 27 to 34, inclusive, and W ½ sec. 35, unsurveyed. The areas described, including both public and nonpublic lands, aggregate approximately 68,533.75 acres. This order shall be subject to (1) the order of the Secretary of the Interior of November 3, 1936, establishing Grazing District No. 5, which order affects all of the public lands in the above-described areas, and (2) Power Site Classification No. 210 of January 7, 1925, so far as it affects any of the public lands in the above-described areas. After the present national defense emergency has been officially terminated, this order shall be ineffective upon notice to the War Department by the Secretary of the Interior that such lands are needed for grazing purposes or for any other purposes by the Department of the Interior. The local Army Commandant in charge of the lands heretofore described will, after consultation with the local representative of the Grazing Service, Department of the Interior, designate not less than two days a month, exclusive of Saturdays and Sundays, on which there will be no firing affecting secs. 13, 14, 23 and 24, T. 18 S., R. 61 E., to enable the field personnel of the Grazing Service to maintain certain range improvements located on those lands. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The White House, November 27, 1941.