Proc. 7319 Title 3--The President NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225, 16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that there are hereby set apart and reserved as the Hanford Reach National Monument, for the purpose of protecting the objects identified above, all lands and in- terests in lands owned or controlled by the United States within the bound- aries of the area described on the map entitled "Hanford Reach National Monument" attached to and forming a part of this proclamation. The Fed- eral land and interests in land reserved consist of approximately 195,000 acres, which is the smallest area compatible with the proper care and man- agement of the objects to be protected. All Federal lands and interests in lands within the boundaries of this monument are hereby appropriated and withdrawn from all forms of entry, location, selection, sale, or leasing or other disposition under the public land laws, including but not limited to withdrawal from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under all laws re- lating to mineral and geothermal leasing, other than by exchange that fur- thers the protective purposes of the monument. For the purpose of protecting the objects identified above, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Energy shall prohibit all motorized and mechanized vehicle use off road, except for emergency or other federally authorized purposes, including remediation purposes. There is hereby re- served, as of the date of this proclamation and subject to valid existing rights, a quantity of water in the Columbia River sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which this monument is established. Nothing in this reserva- tion shall be construed as a relinquishment or reduction of any water use or rights reserved or appropriated by the United States on or before the date of this proclamation. For the purpose of protecting the objects identified above, the Secretary of the Interior shall prohibit livestock grazing. The monument shall be managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under existing agreements with the Department of Energy, except that the Department of Energy shall manage the lands within the monument that are not subject to management agreements with the Service, and in devel- oping any management plans and rules and regulations governing the por- tions of the monument for which the Department of Energy has manage- ment responsibility, the Secretary of Energy shall consult with the Sec- retary of the Interior. As the Department of Energy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service deter- mine that lands within the monument managed by the Department of En- ergy become suitable for management by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv- ice, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will assume management by agree- ment with the Department of Energy. All agreements between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Energy shall be consistent with the provisions of this proclamation. Nothing in this proclamation shall affect the responsibility of the Depart- ment of Energy under environmental laws, including the remediation of hazardous substances or the restoration of natural resources at the Hanford facility; nor affect the Department of Energy's statutory authority to control public access or statutory responsibility to take other measures for environ- mental remediation, monitoring, security, safety, or emergency prepared- 104
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