Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 8347—Transferring the Use, Possession, and Control of Certain Lands to the Tennessee Valley Authority

February 12, 1940

ALABAMA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 7 (b) of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58, 63), it is ordered that the use, possession, and control of the following-described public lands in the state of Alabama be, and they are hereby, transferred to the Tennessee Valley Authority for the purposes stated in the said Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933:

HUNTSVILLE MERIDIAN

T. 6 S., R. 1 E., sec. 25, west part ("B") of SE fractional ¼ (north of Tennessee River), containing 52 acres.

T. 6 S., R. 2 E., sec. 31, NW¼SW¼ (south of Tennessee River), containing 40 acres.

Executive Order No. 6964 of February 5, 1935, as amended, temporarily withdrawing public lands in the state of Alabama and other states for classification, etc., is hereby revoked as to the above-described lands.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 12, 1940.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8347—Transferring the Use, Possession, and Control of Certain Lands to the Tennessee Valley Authority Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371939

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