diff --git a/src/doc/ESMF_install.tex b/src/doc/ESMF_install.tex
index 5999fcafc8..0838a806da 100644
--- a/src/doc/ESMF_install.tex
+++ b/src/doc/ESMF_install.tex
@@ -1191,11 +1191,6 @@ \subsection{Building the ESMF Documentation}
 The ESMF source documentation consists of an {\it ESMF User's Guide}
 and an {\it ESMF Reference Manual for Fortran}.
 
-The tarballs on the ESMF website for ESMF versions 3.0.1 and later do
-not contain the ESMF documentation files.  The documentation is
-available on the ESMF website in html or pdf form and most users should
-not need to build it from the source.
-
 If a user does want to build the documentation, they will need to download the
 ESMF code repository (see section \ref{sec:download}). Latex, latex2html, perl
 and csh must also be installed. For example, dependencies may be installed on