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Appendix d:Land Acquisition and DisposalHistory of Fort Richardson 115APPENDIX A: Abbreviations and AcronymsAcquisition1. Army Air Corps base in Anchorage, Alaska authorized by congress on August 1935. Executive Order(EO) 8102 withdrawing 40,564 acres of land andExecutive Order (EO) 8343 withdrawing 5,230 acresof land for construction of Fort Richardson and its Elmendorf Field were issued in 1939 and 1940.2. May 16, 1941, EO 8755 issued withdrawing 16,733 acres for extension of the reservation to the northand east. June 1941, EO 8788 issued adding another 160 acres to the western portion of ElmendorfField.3. Between January 1941 and February 1944, 9,382 acres were purchased at a total cost of $325,440.03.4. March 12, 1943, Public Land Order (PLO) 95 issued withdrawing 6,212 acres to increase trainingareas in the northeastern portion of the reservation.5. December 7, 1944, PLO 253 issued withdrawing another 76,215 acres to the south.6. January 7, 1949, PLO 546 issued withdrawing 135 acres.7. In 1950, 13,000 acres transferred from Fort Richardson to Elmendorf Air Force Base when the AirForce was established as a separate branch of the military. The Army acquired additional lands underPLO 1673, and established a new cantonment area within the modern Fort Richardson boundaries8. In 1958, the Army announced plans to establish NIKE Hercules missile sites in Alaska. Nike SiteSummit was established on 80 acres withdrawn under PLO 2698, January 11, 1962.9. In 1965, two parcels of land were acquired from the BLM under special use permits. One 880-acreparcel in the Arctic Valley Ski Bowl area (later reduced to 240 acres under co-op agreement) and one4,795-acre parcel for use with the Davis Range.10. At one time, Fort Richardson was comprised of nearly 162,004 acres. Changes through the years in theArmy’s mission and the increasing need for developable land in the Anchorage Bowl area led to thereservation decreasing to its current size of 61,142 acres.Disposal1. In June 1946, 8,733 acres were relinquished to the Department of the Interior/BLM. An additional 122acres of fee land in the Fire Lake area were relinquished to BLM, and 159 acres of fee land weretransferred to War Assets Administration (WAA).2. In June 1947, 79,826 acres of public domain land in the Eagle River training area, Mountain View andCampbell Creek maneuver training areas were relinquished to BLM. 160 acres of fee land in theCampbell Creek maneuver training area were transferred to WAA.115Installation Commander’s Annual Real Property Utilization Survey, 1985. 172nd Infantry Brigade (Alaska) Fort Richardson.<strong>Homesteads</strong> on Fort RichardsonAlaska101