[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