EXECUTIVE
ORDER
EO 13428
Effective Date: April 04, 2007

Responsible Office: Administrator
Subject: Renaming a National Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico


Renaming a National Forest in the Commonwealth of 
                Puerto Rico

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including section 1 of the Act of June 4, 1897 
                (16 U.S.C. 473) and section 1 of the Act of July 1, 
                1902 (48 U.S.C. 746), and to rename the Caribbean 
                National Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, it 
                is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. The Caribbean National Forest in the 
                Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is hereby renamed the ``El 
                Yunque National Forest.'

                Sec. 2. Previous references to the Caribbean National 
                Forest in Executive Order 7059-A of June 4, 1935, and 
                Executive Order 10992 of February 9, 1962, shall, for 
                all purposes hereafter, be deemed references to the 
                ``El Yunque National Forest.'

                Sec. 3. This order shall be implemented in accordance 
                with applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

                Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, agencies, entities, officers, 
                employees, or agents thereof, or any other person.
                
                
                    President, George Bush

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    April 2, 2007.
 

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