Executive Order 8221—Further Amending Executive Order No. 7677-A, of July 26, 1937, as Amended, Entitled "Civilian Conservation Corps"

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me under the act entitled "An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes", approved June 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 319), as amended by the act of May 12, 1938 (52 Stat. 349), and the act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1198), Executive Order No. 7677-A of July 26, 1937, entitled "Civilian Conservation Corps", as amended by Executive Order No. 7717 of September 29, 1937, and Executive Order No. 8133 of May 15, 1939, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

1. Reserve officers of the Army and officers of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves and warrant officers of the Coast Guard on active duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps will be relieved from such duty under their commissions, such relief to be effected gradually and completed on or before December 31, 1939. No additional reserve officers will be ordered to active duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps nor will the detail of any such officers now on such duty be extended or renewed; except that when it may be necessary to retain a reserve officer on active duty whose current tour of active duty expires at an early date, such officer's tour of active duty may be extended for a period terminating not later than September 30, 1939. With the exceptions authorized in the preceding sentence, reserve officers will be relieved from active duty as their current tours of active duty are terminated, and, in any event, not later than December 31, 1939.

2. The Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized, subject to the limitations and restrictions contained in section 3 of the said act of June 28, 1937, to undertake projects on lands belonging to or under the jurisdiction or control of counties and municipalities, and on lands in private ownership.

3. The Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs are requested to cooperate with the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps in carrying out the purposes of the said act of June 28, 1937, as amended. Each of the said Secretaries and the said Administrator shall appoint a representative who shall, upon request of the Director, confer with him and under his direction aid him in prosecuting effectively the purposes contemplated by the said act, as amended.

4. This order shall take effect as of July 1, 1939.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 21, 1939.