Amending Proclamation 8336 To Read, "Establishment of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument" and Amending Proclamation 9173 To Read, "Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument Expansion"

Proclamation 10880 of January 2, 2025

Amending Proclamation 8336 To Read,
``Establishment of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine
National Monument'' and Amending Proclamation 9173 To
Read, ``Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National
Monument Expansion''

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

WHEREAS, Proclamation 8336 of January 6, 2009,
established the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National
Monument (Monument); and

WHEREAS, Proclamation 9173 of September 25, 2014,
established the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National
Monument Expansion (Monument Expansion);

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by the authority vested
in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United
States, including section 320301 of title 54, United
States Code, do amend Proclamation 8336 and
Proclamation 9173 for the purposes of updating the name
of the Monument and the Monument Expansion to recognize
the connection of these areas with the cultural
heritage of the Indigenous Peoples and communities of
the Pacific Islands, and of making the following
conforming changes and corrections:

Section 1. The title of Proclamation 8336 is amended to
read, ``Establishment of the Pacific Islands Heritage
Marine National Monument.''

Sec. 2. The title of Proclamation 9173 is amended to
read, ``Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National
Monument Expansion.''

Sec. 3. The phrase ``Pacific Remote Islands Marine
National Monument'' is amended to read, ``Pacific
Islands Heritage Marine National Monument,'' wherever
it appears in Proclamation 8336 and Proclamation 9173.

Sec. 4. The titles of the maps of the Monument
accompanying Proclamation 8336 are amended to read,
``Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument.''

Sec. 5. The titles of the maps of the Monument
Expansion accompanying Proclamation 9173 are amended to
read, ``Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National
Monument Expansion.''

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
second day of January, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.