[Executive Orders]
Executive Order 10291
ESTABLISHING AN AIRSPACE RESERVATION OVER THE
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT OF THE UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
By virtue of an pursuant to the authority vested in me
by section 4 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (44 Stat.570), the
airspace above the following-described portion of the United States
Is hereby reserved and set apart for national defense and other
governmental purposes as an airspace reservation within which no
person shall navigate an aircraft except by authority of the United
States Atomic Energy Commission: All that area in the States of
Georgia and South Carolina lying within the following-described
boundaries:
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
Beginning at Latitude 33022'45", Longitude 810 24'30"; thence south
Latitude 33014'30", Longitude 810 24'00"; thence southerly to
Latitude 33008'30", Longitude 810 22'36"; thence southwest to Latitude
33005'00", Longitude 810 32'00" at Millettville; thence southwest to
Latitude 330 02'40", Longitude 810 42'48" at Girard; thence
northwest along the old Savannah-Augusta Highway to Telfairville at
Latitude 330 05'18", Longitude 810 48'48"; thence northwest to
Latitude 330 25'00", Longitude 810 53'30"; thence northeast to
Latitude 330 27'30", Longitude 810 48'55"; thence due east to
Latitude 330 27'30", Longitude 810 33'55"; thence southeast to
Latitude 330 22'45", Longitude 810 24'30", the point of
beginning.
Any person navigating an aircraft within this airspace
reservation in violation of the provisions of this order will be
subject to the penalties prescribed in the Civil Aeronautics Act of
1938 (52 Stat. 973), as amended.
This order shall become effective on October 3, 1951.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE
September 25, 1951