Presidential Documents

6739 

Federal Register 

Vol. 90, No. 11 

Friday, January 17, 2025 

Title 3— 

The President 

Memorandum of January 6, 2025 

Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf From Oil or Natural Gas Leasing 

Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior 

Consistent with principles of responsible public stewardship, and with due 

consideration of the irreplaceable marine and coastal environments, including 

wildlife and wildlife habitat, of the Bering Sea; and independently with 

due consideration of the vulnerability of these ecosystems and coastal communities, where limited or no oil and natural gas development has yet 

occurred, to oil spills; and independently with due consideration of the 

national need to curtail, mitigate, build resilience against, and adapt to 

the devastating and irreversible consequences of climate change for the 

human environment and for the marine and coastal environments, I hereby 

direct as follows: 

Under the authority granted to me in section 12(a) of the Outer Continental 

Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. 1341(a), I hereby withdraw from disposition 

by oil or natural gas leasing for a time period without specific expiration 

the remaining areas that are part of the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, designated in Executive Order 13754 of December 9, 2016 (Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience), and that are not currently withdrawn 

from disposition by leasing. The Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience 

Area includes waters within the United States Exclusive Economic Zone 

bounded to the north by the seaward boundary of the Bering Straits Native 

Corporation established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 

Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.); to the south by the southern boundaries of 

the Northern Bering Sea Research Area, the St. Matthew Habitat Conservation 

Area, and the Nunivak-Kuskokwim Habitat Conservation Area; and to the 

west by the maritime boundary delimited by the Agreement Between the 

United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 

the Maritime Boundary, signed at Washington, June 1, 1990. This withdrawal 

does not affect the prior withdrawal made in the Norton Basin Planning 

Area by Executive Order 13754, or the withdrawal of the North Aleutian 

Planning Area by the Presidential Memorandum of December 16, 2014 (Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from 

Leasing Disposition). 

The boundaries of the withdrawn areas are more specifically delineated 

in the attached map. The map forms a part of this memorandum. The 

withdrawal directed by this memorandum prevents consideration of the 

withdrawn areas for any future oil or natural gas leasing for purposes of 

exploration, development, or production. 


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Nothing in this withdrawal affects rights under existing leases in the withdrawn areas. 

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Washington, January 6, 2025 

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