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PROCLAMATION 3360—JULY 22, 1960

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MODIFYING THE ARCHES NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

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WHEREAS the Arches National Monument in Grand County, Utah, established by Proclamation No. 1875 of April 12, 1929, and enlarged by Proclamation ^^ Stat. 2988. No. 2312 of November 25, 1938, was re- ^^ Stat. 2504. served and set apart as an area containing extraordinary examples of winderoded sandstone formations and other geologic and prehistoric structures of historic and scientific interest; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to add to the Arches National Monument certain contiguous lands on which outstanding geologic features of great scientific interest are situated, and certain other lands adjacent to the monument which are essential to the proper care, management, and protection of the objects of scientific interest situated on such lands and on lands now comprising a part of the monument; and WHEREAS it appears that it would also be in the public interest to exclude from the monument certain lands in the southeast section thereof, contiguous to the Salt Wash escarpment, which are used for grazing and which have no known scenic or scientific value: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), and subject to valid existing rights, do proclaim as follows: The lands now owned by the United States within the exterior boundaries of the following-described tracts of land are hereby added to and reserved as a part of the Arches National Monument; and lands owned by the State of Utah within such boundaries shall become and

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