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Executive Order 8874

Withdrawing Public Lands for Use of the War Department as a Practice Bombing Range; New Mexico

Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Aug 28, 1941.

Later revoked or superseded
Signed recordAug 28, 1941

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Publication record6 FR 4485

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Later dispositionLater revoked or superseded

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Amended by EO 9526, February 28, 1945
Revoked by Public Land Order 496, July 9, 1948 (13 FR 4126)(in part); Public Land Order 682, November 3, 1950 (15 FR 7645)(in part); Public Land Order 2807, October 25, 1962 (27 FR 10583)
See EO 6910, November 26, 1934

National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.