Lake Roosevelt Administrative History

Saturday, May 14, 1960

FEDERAL REGISTER

[Public Land Order 2087]
[Washington 03542]

WASHINGTON

Reserving Lands in Old Fort Spokane Military Reservation for Use of National Park Service, In Connection With Coulee Dam National Recreation Area; Partly Revoking Executive Orders of January 12, 1882, and November 17, 1887

By virtue of the authority vested in the President and pursuant to Executive Order No. 10355 of May 26, 1952, it is ordered as follows:

Subject to valid existing rights, the following-described public lands are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, and disposals of materials under the act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 681: 30 U.S.C. 601-604), and reserved under jurisdiction of the National Park Service for use as an administrative, museum and historic site in connection with the Coulee Dam National Recreation Area:

WILLAMETTE MERIDIAN

T. 28 N., R. 36 E.
  Sec. 20, lots 15, 16. 21, 22, and 23:
  Sec. 29, lots 7 to 12, incl.

The areas described aggregate 331.31 acres.

The Executive order of January 12, 1882, establishing the Fort Spokane Military Reservation, and the Executive order of November 17, 1887, modifying its boundaries, are hereby revoked so far as they affect the lands.

ROGER ERNST,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

MAY 9, 1960