Reading Room Document

Management of Admiralty Island and Misty Fiords National Monuments

Executive Order No. 6166 leaves intact forest reservations on national monument lands, and the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior thus share administrative responsibility for Admiralty Island and Misty Fiords National Monuments. Conclusion of opinion of February 9, 1979 (3 Op. O.L.C. 85 (1979)), that management functions in connection with the two national monuments must be transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, reconsidered and amended. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/22476/download.

February 8, 1980