    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2008, Book II)]
    [July 14, 2008]
    [Pages 1015-1016]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Memorandum on Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the United
    States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposition
    July 14, 2008

    Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior

    Subject: Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the United States
    Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition

        Under the authority vested in me as President of the United States,
    including section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43
    U.S.C. 1341(a), I hereby modify the prior memoranda of withdrawals from
    disposition by leasing of the United States Outer Continental Shelf
    issued on August 4, 1992, and June 12, 1998, as modified on January 9,
    2007, to read only as follows:
        Under the authority vested in me as President of the United States,
    including section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43
    U.S.C. 1341(a), I hereby withdraw from disposition by leasing, for a
    time period without specific expiration, those areas of the Outer
    Continental Shelf designated as of July 14, 2008, as Marine Sanctuaries
    under the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, 16
    U.S.C. 1431-1434, 33 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.
        Nothing in this withdrawal affects the rights under existing leases
    in these areas.

                                                              George W. Bush

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