Modifying the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

This proclamation modifies the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, reducing it from approximately 1.87 million acres under Proclamation 10286 to approximately 181,541 acres in two units, the Canyons of the Escalante Unit and the Kaiparowits Horizon Unit, and excluding approximately 1.69 million acres. Sixty days after issuance, the excluded lands open to disposition under the public land laws, mineral and geothermal leasing, and the mining laws. It directs the Secretary of the Interior to maintain a management plan, prepare a new transportation plan maximizing public access, and reallocate voluntarily relinquished grazing permits within one year.

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