RESTORING NAMES THAT HONOR AMERICAN GREATNESS

Within seven days of the date of this order, each agency head with authority to appoint members to the Board on Geographic Names shall review their respective appointees and consider replacing those appointees in accordance with applicable law.

The Secretary of the Interior shall review and consider additional appointments to the Board to assist in fulfilling all aspects of this order, subject to all applicable laws. With respect to all applications for naming and renaming submitted to the newly constituted Board, the Board shall advance the policy established in section 1 of this order to honor the contributions of visionary and patriotic Americans and may update its principles, policies, and procedures as needed to achieve this policy.

Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall reinstate the name “Mount McKinley” by updating the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) to reflect the renaming and reinstatement of Mount McKinley. The national park area surrounding Mount McKinley shall retain the name Denali National Park and Preserve.

The Secretary of the Interior shall work with Alaska Native entities and state and local organizations to adopt names for landmarks to honor the history and culture of the Alaskan people.

Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall take all appropriate actions to rename the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”.

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