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Vol. 90

Friday,

No. 11

January 17, 2025

Part XI





The President





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Memorandum of January 6, 2025--Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the 
United States Outer Continental Shelf From Oil or Natural Gas Leasing



Memorandum of January 6, 2025--Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the 
United States Outer Continental Shelf From Oil or Natural Gas Leasing



Proclamation 10883--Religious Freedom Day, 2025



Memorandum of January 15, 2025--Extending and Expanding Eligibility for 
Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Hong Kong Residents



Executive Order 14143--Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of 
AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service



Executive Order 14144--Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the 
Nation's Cybersecurity



Memorandum of January 16, 2025--Orderly Implementation of the Air 
Toxics Standards for Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilizers
 
 
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                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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 6, 2025

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