Presidential Document2025-01463
Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf From Oil or Natural Gas Leasing
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Published
January 17, 2025
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January 6, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 6739-6741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01463]
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Vol. 90
Friday,
No. 11
January 17, 2025
Part XI
The President
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Memorandum of January 6, 2025--Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the
United States Outer Continental Shelf From Oil or Natural Gas Leasing
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The President
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Memorandum of January 6, 2025
Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States
Outer Continental Shelf From Oil or Natural Gas Leasing
Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior
Consistent with principles of responsible public
stewardship, and with due consideration of the
irreplaceable marine and coastal environments,
including wildlife and wildlife habitat, of the Bering
Sea; and independently with due consideration of the
vulnerability of these ecosystems and coastal
communities, where limited or no oil and natural gas
development has yet occurred, to oil spills; and
independently with due consideration of the national
need to curtail, mitigate, build resilience against,
and adapt to the devastating and irreversible
consequences of climate change for the human
environment and for the marine and coastal
environments, I hereby direct as follows:
Under the authority granted to me in section 12(a) of
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C.
1341(a), I hereby withdraw from disposition by oil or
natural gas leasing for a time period without specific
expiration the remaining areas that are part of the
Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, designated
in Executive Order 13754 of December 9, 2016 (Northern
Bering Sea Climate Resilience), and that are not
currently withdrawn from disposition by leasing. The
Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area includes
waters within the United States Exclusive Economic Zone
bounded to the north by the seaward boundary of the
Bering Straits Native Corporation established pursuant
to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.); to the south by the southern boundaries
of the Northern Bering Sea Research Area, the St.
Matthew Habitat Conservation Area, and the Nunivak-
Kuskokwim Habitat Conservation Area; and to the west by
the maritime boundary delimited by the Agreement
Between the United States of America and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary,
signed at Washington, June 1, 1990. This withdrawal
does not affect the prior withdrawal made in the Norton
Basin Planning Area by Executive Order 13754, or the
withdrawal of the North Aleutian Planning Area by the
Presidential Memorandum of December 16, 2014
(Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer
Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition).
The boundaries of the withdrawn areas are more
specifically delineated in the attached map. The map
forms a part of this memorandum. The withdrawal
directed by this memorandum prevents consideration of
the withdrawn areas for any future oil or natural gas
leasing for purposes of exploration, development, or
production.
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Nothing in this withdrawal affects rights under
existing leases in the withdrawn areas.
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