Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.3101

PUBLIC LAW 96-487—DEC. 2, 1980

94 STAT. 2371

Public Law 96-487
96th Congress
An Act
To provide for the designation and conservation of certain public lands in the State
of Alaska, including the designation of units of the National Park, National
Wildlife Refuge, National Forest, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, and National
Wilderness Preservation Systems, and for other purposes.

Dec. 2, 1980
[H.R. 39]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States ofAmerica in Congress assembled,
Alaska National
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Alaska National Interest conJSvatfon
Lands Conservation Act".
Act.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE I-PURPOSES, DEFINITIONS, AND MAPS
Sec. 101. Purposes.
Sec. 102. Definitions.
Sec. 103. Maps.
TITLE II-NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
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201. Establishment of new areas.
202. Additions to existing areas.
203. General administration.
204. Native selections.
205. Commercial fishing.
206. Withdrawal from mining.
TITLE ni—NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM

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Definitions.
Establishment of new refuges.
Additions to existing refuges.
Administration of refuges.
Prior authorities.
Special study.

TITLE IV-NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA AND NATIONAL RECREATION
AREA
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Establishment of Steese National Conservation Area.
Administrative provisions.
Establishment of White Mountains National Recreation Area.
Rights of holders of unperfected mining claims.
TITLE V—NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

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501. Additions to existing national forests.
502. Mining and mineral leasing on certain national forest lands.
503. Misty Fjords and Admiralty Island National Monuments.
504. Unperfected mining claims in Misty Fjords and Admiralty Island National
Monuments.
Sec. 505. Fisheries on national forest lands in Alaska.
Sec. 506. Admiralty Island land exchanges.
Sec. 507. Cooperative fisheries planning.

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TITLE VI-NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM
PART A—WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS WITHIN NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

Sec. 601. Additions.
PART B—WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS WITHIN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM

Sec. 602. Additions.
PART C—ADDITION TO NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM LOCATED OUTSIDE
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM UNITS AND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES

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Additions.
Designation for study.
Administrative provisions.
Other amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

TITLE VII—NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM
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Designation of wilderness within National Park System.
Designation of wilderness within National Wildlife Refuge System.
Designation of wilderness within National Forest System.
Designation of wilderness study area within National Forest System.
National forest timber utilization program.
Reports.
Administration.
RARE II release.
TITLE VIII-SUBSISTENCE MANAGEMENT AND USE

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Findings.
Policy.
Definitions.
Preference for subsistence uses.
Local and regional participation.
Federal monitoring.
Judicial enforcement.
Park and park monument subsistence resource commissions.
Cooperative agreements.
Subsistence and land use decisions.
Access.
Research.
Periodic reports.
Regulations.
Limitations, savings clauses.
Closure to subsistence uses.

TITLE IX-IMPLEMENTATION OF ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
ACT AND ALASKA STATEHOOD ACT
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Submerged lands statute of limitations.
Statute of limitations.
Administrative provisions.
Tax moratorium extension.
Alaska Native allotments.
State selections and conveyances.
Alaska Land Bank.
Protection of Native lands in contingency areas under timber sales.
Use of protraction diagrams.
National Environmental Policy Act.
Technical amendment to Public Law 94-204.

TITLE X—FEDERAL NORTH SLOPE LANDS STUDIES, OIL AND GAS LEASING
PROGRAM AND MINERAL ASSESSMENTS
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Overall study program.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain resource assessment.
Prohibition on development.
Wilderness portion of study.

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1005. Wildlife resources portion of study.
1006. Transportation alternatives portion of study.
1007. Arctic research study.
1008. Oil and gas leasing program for non-North Slope Federal lands.
1009. Oil and gas lease applications.
1010. Alaska mineral resource assessment program.
1011. Presidential transmittal.

TITLE XI—TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY SYSTEMS IN AND ACROSS, AND
ACCESS INTO, CONSERVATION SYSTEM UNITS
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1101. Findings.
1102. Definitions.
1103. Effect of title.
1104. Procedural requirements.
1105. Standards for granting certain authorizations.
1106. Agency, Presidential, and congressional actions.
1107. Rights-of-way terms and conditions.
1108. Expedited judicial review.
1109. Valid existing rights.
1110. Special access and access to inholdings.
1111. Temporary access.
1112. North Slope Haul Road.
1113. Stikine River region.
TITLE XII—FEDERAL-STATE COOPERATION

Sec. 1201. Alaska Land Use Council.
Sec. 1202. Federal Coordination Committee.
Sec. 1203. Bristol Bay cooperative region.
TITLE XIII-ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
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1301. Management plans.
1302. Land acquisition authority.
1303. Use of cabins and other sites of occupancy on conservation system units.
1304. Archeological and paleontological sites.
1305. Cooperative information/education centers.
1306. Administrative sites and visitor facilities.
1307. Revenue-producing visitor services.
1308. Local hire.
1309. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
1310. Navigation aids and other facilities.
1311. Scenic highway study.
1312. Administration of the White Mountains National Recreation Area.
1313. Administration of national preserves.
1314. Taking of fish and wildlife.
1315. Wilderness management.
1316. Allowed uses.
1317. General wilderness review provision.
1318. Statewide cultural assistance program.
1319. Effect on existing rights.
1320. Bureau of Land Management land reviews.
1321. Authorization for appropriation.
1322. Effect on prior withdrawals.
1323. Access.
1324. Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge agricultural use.
1325. Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
1326. Future Executive actions.
1327. Alaska gas pipeline.
1328. Public land entries in Alaska.

TITLE XIV—AMENDMENTS TO THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
ACT AND RELATED PROVISIONS
PART A—AMENDMENTS TO THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT Ac?r

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1401. Stock alienation.
1402. Selection requirements.
1403. Retained mineral estate.
1404. Vesting date for reconveyances.

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Reconveyance to municipal corporations.
Conveyance of partial estates.
Shareholder homesites.
Basis in the land.
Fire protection.
Interim conveyances and underselections.
Escrow account.
Limitations.
PART B—OTHER RELATED PROVISIONS

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1413. Supplemental appropriation for Native Groups.
1414. Fiscal Year Adjustment Act.
1415. Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units.
1416. Bristol Bay Group Corporation lands.
1417. Pribilof Islands acquisition authority.
1418. NANA/Cook Inlet Regional Corporations lands.
1419. Doyon Regional Corporation lands.
1420. Hodzana River study area.
1421. Conveyance to the State of Alaska.
1422. Doyon and Fortymile River.
1423. Ahtna Regional Corporation lands.
1424. Bering Straits Regional Corporation lands.
1425. Eklutna Village Corporation lands.
1426. Eklutna-State Anchorage agreement.
1427. Koniag Village and Regional Corporation lands.
1428. Chugach Village Corporation lands.
1429. Chugach Regional Corporation lands.
1430. Chugach region study.
1431. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation lands.
1432. Cook Inlet Village settlement.
1433. Bristol Bay Native Corporation lands.
1434. Shee Atika-Charcoal and Alice Island conveyance.
1435. Amendment to Public Law 94-204.
1436. Inalik Native Corporation lands.
1437. Conveyances to Village Corporations.

TITLE XV—NATIONAL NEED MINERAL ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATION
PROCESS
Sec. 1501. Areas subject to the national need recommendation process.
Sec. 1502. Recommendations of the President to Congress.
Sec. 1503. Expedited congressional review.

TITLE I—PURPOSES, DEFINITIONS, AND MAPS
PURPOSES

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SEC. 101. (a) In order to preserve for the benefit, use, education, and
inspiration of present and future generations certain lands and
waters in the State of Alaska that contain nationally significant
natural, scenic, historic, archeological, geological, scientific, wilderness, cultural, recreational, and wildlife values, the units described in
the following titles are hereby established.
0)) It is the intent of Congress in this Act to preserve unrivaled
scenic and geological values associated with natural landscapes; to
provide for the maintenance of sound populations of, and habitat for,
wildlife species of inestimable value to the citizens of Alaska and the
Nation, including those species dependent on vast relatively undeveloped areas; to preserve in their natural state extensive unaltered
arctic tundra, boreal forest, and coastal rainforest ecosystems; to
protect the resources related to subsistence needs; to protect and
preserve historic and archeological sites, rivers, and lands, and to
preserve wilderness resource values and related recreational opportunities including but not limited to hiking, canoeing, fishing, and
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freeflowing rivers; and to maintain opportunities for scientific
research and undisturbed ecosystems.
(c) It is further the intent and purpose of this Act consistent with
management of fish and wildUfe in accordance with recognized
scientific principles and the purposes for which each conservation
system unit is established, designated, or expanded by or pursuant to
this Act, to provide the opportunity for rural residents engaged in a
subsistence way of life to continue to do so.
(d) This Act provides sufficient protection for the national interest
in the scenic, natural, cultural and environmental values on the
public lands in Alaska, and at the same time provides adequate
opportunity for satisfaction of the economic and social needs of the
State of Alaska and its people; accordingly, the designation and
disposition of the public lands in Alaska pursuant to this Act are
found to represent a proper balance between the reservation of
national conservation system units and those public lands necessary
and appropriate for more intensive use and disposition, and thus
Congress believes that the need for future legislation designating new
conservation system units, new national conservation areas, or new
national recreation areas, has been obviated thereby.
DEFINITIONS

SEC. 102. As used in this Act (except that in titles IX and XIV the 16 use 3102.
following terms shall have the same meaning as they have in the 1*^^^' PP- ^^^^'
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and the Alaska Statehood 43 use I601
Act)—

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(1) The term "land" means lands, waters, and interests
therein.

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(2) The term "Federal land" means lands the title to which is in
the United States after the date of enactment of this Act.
(3) The term "public lands" means land situated in Alaska
which, after the date of enactment of this Act, are Federal lands,
except—
(A) land selections of the State of Alaska which have been
tentatively approved or validly selected under the Alaska
Statehood Act and lands which have been confirmed to,
validly selected by, or granted to the Territory of Alaska or
the State under any other provision of Federal law;
(B) land selections of a Native Corporation made under the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which have not been
conveyed to a Native Corporation, unless any such selection
is determined to be invalid or is relinquished; and
(C) lands referred to in section 19(b) of the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act.
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(4) The term "conservation system unit" means any unit in
Alaska of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge
System, National Wild and Scenic Rivers Systems, National
Trails System, National Wilderness Preservation System, or a
National Forest Monument including existing units, units established, designated, or expanded by or under the provisions of this
Act, additions to such units, and any such unit established,
designated, or expanded hereafter.
(5) The term "Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act" means 43 use I601
"An Act to provide for the settlement of certain land claims of ^°^^Alaska Natives, and for other purposes", approved December 18,
1971 (85 Stat. 688), as amended.