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PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 12, 1941 ENLARGING THE CACHE NATIONAL FOREST-UTAH BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 8 Ma12,1941 [No. 2484] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, by Memorandum of Agreement entered into on September 21, 1940, have agreed that the lands acquired by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, in connection with the Pine View Reservoir site, Ogden River Reclamation Project, Utah, are suitable for timber production and, with certain exceptions, should be reserved as a part of the Cache National Forest, Utah, to be adminis- tered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the general plan prescribed in such Memorandum of Agreement; and WHEREAS the Ogden River Water Users' Association, which is obligated to repay to the United States the cost of the said Ogden River Reclamation Project, has agreed and consented, for valuable considerations, to the inclusion of such lands in the Cache National Forest upon the terms and conditions contained in the said Memoran- dum of Agreement; and WHEREAS it appears that such lands are within or adjacent to the Cache National Forest and are suitable for national-forest purposes and that, with certain exceptions, it would be in the public interest to include them in and reserve them as a part of the Cache National Forest: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- Landsadded. dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 471), by the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (U. S . C., title 16, sec. 473), and by section 9 of the act of June 7, 1924, 43 Stat. 655 (U. S . C ., title 16, sec. 471(b)), and upon the joint recommenda- tion of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, do proclaim (a) that the boundaries of the Cache National Forest are hereby extended as shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, and (b) that all lands within such boundaries as extended which are owned by the United States and are included within the Pine View Reservoir site, except those lands described below, are hereby included in and reserved as a part of the Cache National Forest and shall hereafter be subject to the laws applicable to the national forests, to the terms and conditions prescribed by the above- mentioned Memorandum of Agreement, and to the rules and regula- tions applicable to the national forests, except that such rules and regulations shall not be administered in a manner inconsistent with the terms and conditions of the said Memorandum of Agreement. The following-described lands of the United States within the above- Exceptons. described boundaries as extended are hereby excepted from the reservation made by this proclamation and shall continue to be ad- ministered by the Bureau of Reclamation: Reservation for the Pine View Dam: A tract of land in the Northwest Quarter (NW%4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE%) of Section Sixteen (16) Township Six (6) North, Range One (1) East, S. L. B . & M., being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at Station 37+85.5, a point on the center line of the Huntsville Highway from which point the East Quarter (E 4) corer of Section Sixteen (16), Township Six (6) North, Range One (1) East, S. L. B. & M., bears North 58 007' East Sixteen Hundred Sixty and Sixty-seven hundredths (1660.67) feet; thence North 38008%' West parallel to the axis of the dam Seven 55 STAT. ] 1641