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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. This Act, may be cited as the "Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act".


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE I--PURPOSES, DEFINITIONS, AND MAPS (14K file)

§101. Purposes.
§102. Definitions.
§103. Maps.

TITLE II--NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM (30K file)

§201. Establishment of new areas.
§202. Additions to existing areas.
§203. General administration.
§204. Native selections.
§205. Commercial fishing.
§206. Withdrawal from mining.

TITLE III--NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM (59K file)

§301. Definitions.
§302. Establishment of new refuges.
§303. Additions to existing refuges.
§304. Administration of refuges.
§305. Prior authorities.
§306. Special study.

TITLE IV--NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA AND NATIONAL RECREATION AREA (11K file)

§401. Establishment of Steese National Conservation Area.
§402. Administrative provisions.
§403. Establishment of White Mountains National Recreation Area.
§404. Rights of holders of unperfected mining claims.

TITLE V--NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM (65K file)

§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.
§505. Fisheries on national forest lands in Alaska.
§506. Admiralty Island land exchanges.
§507. Cooperative fisheries planning.

TITLE VI--NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM (22K file)

PART A--WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS WITHIN NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

§601. Additions.

PART B--WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS WITHIN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM

§602. Additions.

PART C--ADDITION TO NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM LOCATED OUTSIDE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM UNITS AND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES

§603. Additions.
§604. Designation for study.
§605. Administrative provisions.
§606. Other amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

TITLE VII--NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM (23K file)

§701. Designation of wilderness within National Park System.
§702. Designation of wilderness within National Wildlife Refuge System.
§703. Designation of wilderness within National Forest System.
§704. Designation of wilderness study area within National Forest System.
§705. National forest timber utilization program.
§706. Reports.
§707. Administration.
§708. RARE II release.

TITLE VIII--SUBSISTENCE MANAGEMENT AND USE (37K file)

§801. Findings.
§802. Policy.
§803. Definitions.
§804. Preference for subsistence uses.
§805. Local and regional participation.
§806. Federal monitoring.
§807. Judicial enforcement.
§808. Park and park monument subsistence resource commissions.
§809. Cooperative agreements.
§810. Subsistence and land use decisions.
§811. Access.
§812. Research.
§813. Periodic reports.
§814. Regulations.
§815. Limitations, savings clauses.
§816. Closure to subsistence uses.

TITLE IX--IMPLEMENTATION OF ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT AND ALASKA STATEHOOD ACT (95K file)

§901. Submerged lands statute of limitations.
§902. Statute of limitations.
§903. Administrative provisions.
§904. Tax moratorium extension.
§905. Alaska Native allotments.
§906. State selections and conveyances.
§907. Alaska Land Bank.
§908. Protection of Native lands in contingency areas under timber sales.
§909. Use of protraction diagrams.
§910. National Environmental Policy Act.
§911. Technical amendment to Public Law 94-204.

TITLE X--FEDERAL NORTH SLOPE LANDS STUDIES, 0IL, AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM AND MINERAL ASSESSMENTS (41K file)

§1001. Overall study program.
§1002. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain resource assessment.
§1003. Prohibition on development.
§1004. Wilderness portion of study.
§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 (39K file)

§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 (28K file)

§1201. Alaska Land Use Council.
§1202. Federal Coordination Committee.
§1203. Bristol Bay cooperative region.

TITLE XIII--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS (83K file)

§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 (258K file)

PART A--AMENDMENTS TO THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT

§1401. Stock alienation.
§1402. Selection requirements.
§1403. Retained mineral estate.
§1404. Vesting date for reconveyances.
§1405. Reconveyance to municipal corporations.
§1406. Conveyance of partial estates.
§1407. Shareholder homesites.
§1408. Basis in the land.
§1409. Fire protection.
§1410. Interim conveyances and underselections.
§1411. Escrow account.
§1412. Limitations.

PART B--OTHER RELATED PROVISIONS

§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 (8K file)

§1501. Areas subject to the national need recommendation process.
§1502. Recommendations of the President to Congress.
§1503. Expedited congressional review.


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