[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR13.400]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 13_NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM UNITS IN ALASKA--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart F_Subsistence
 
Sec.  13.400  Purpose and policy.


    (a) Consistent with the management of fish and wildlife in 
accordance with recognized scientific principles and the purposes for 
which each park area was established, designated, or expanded by ANILCA, 
the purpose of this subpart is to provide the opportunity for local

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rural residents engaged in a subsistence way of life to do so pursuant 
to applicable State and Federal law.
    (b) Consistent with sound management principles, and the 
conservation of healthy populations of fish and wildlife, the 
utilization of park areas is to cause the least adverse impact possible 
on local rural residents who depend upon subsistence uses of the 
resources of the public lands in Alaska.
    (c) Nonwasteful subsistence uses of fish, wildlife and other 
renewable resources by local rural residents shall be the priority 
consumptive uses of such resources over any other consumptive uses 
permitted within park areas pursuant to applicable State and Federal 
law.
    (d) Whenever it is necessary to restrict the taking of a fish or 
wildlife population within a park area for subsistence uses in order to 
assure the continued viability of such population or to continue 
subsistence uses of such population, the population shall be allocated 
among local rural residents engaged in subsistence uses in accordance 
with a subsistence priority system based on the following criteria:
    (1) Customary and direct dependence upon the resource as the 
mainstay of one's livelihood;
    (2) Local residency; and
    (3) Availability of alternative resources.
    (e) The State of Alaska is authorized to regulate the taking of fish 
and wildlife for subsistence uses within park areas to the extent such 
regulation is consistent with applicable Federal law, including but not 
limited to ANILCA.
    (f) Nothing in this subpart shall be construed as permitting a level 
of subsistence use of fish and wildlife within park areas to be 
inconsistent with the conservation of healthy populations, and within a 
national park or monument to be inconsistent with the conservation of 
natural and healthy populations, of fish and wildlife.