Executive Order 13

tw The NAME AND By THe Autuorry oF THE State OF lowa

EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER THIRTEEN

WHEREAS, _lowa Code section 1.17 empowers the governor, by appropriate executive order, to accept on behalf of the state full or partial cession or retrocession of federal jurisdiction over lands offered by appropriate federal authority, and

WHEREAS, 10 U.S.C. section 2683 authorizes the US. Department of the Army to offer to relinquish of retrocede its exclusrve legrslative purediction over the Jowa Army Ammunition Plant located in Des Moines County, lows, as necessary to permit the State of lowa to exercese concurrent jurisdiction over the subject federal enclave; and

WHEREAS, _ by letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Paul W. Johnson to Governor Terry E, Branstad, dated July 28, 1997, the U.S. Department of the Army offered to retrocede federal legislative jurisdiction over the lowa Army Ammunition Plant in Des Moines County, lowa; and

WHEREAS, the Department of the Army's revised legal description and map of the subject real estate, attached and marked respectively as Exhibits “A™ and “B,” indicates that the subject real estate Consists of 18,970.06 acres of land; and

WHEREAS, the acceptance of the offer of retrocession will enable the State of lowa and its political subdivisions to enforce state laws that regulate actrvities, which occur on the subject federal enclave; and

WHEREAS, — acceptance of the offer of retrocession would be consistent with the state's interest in ensuring the uniform enforcement of state laws as provided in lowa Code section 1.17

NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Thomas J. Vilsack, Governor of the State of lowa by the power vested in me by the laws and constitution of the State of lowa, hereby accept the offer from the U.S. Department of the Army to retrocede exclusive legislative jurisdiction over the lowa Army Ammunition Plant, bocaicd in Des Moines County, lowa and legally described as shown on attached Exhibits “A” and “3,” a8 necessary to permit the State of lows to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction over the subject federal enclave.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOFP, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of

lowa to be affixed. Done in Des Moines, lows on this the of December in the year of oar Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine

Thomas /’V ijhack

Secretary of State

COURTESY STATE LIBRARY OF IOWA