Modifying the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

This proclamation declares a modification to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, altering the monument’s boundaries on federal lands in Utah as set forth in the text. It directs the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to manage the newly defined monument boundaries and to return removed lands to their prior federal management status, specifying that adjustments reflect the Antiquities Act’s requirement that reserved land be confined to the smallest area compatible with protection of qualifying historic or scientific objects.