[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: 36CFR9.82]

[Page 182-183]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 9_MINERALS MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart D_Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program
 
Sec.  9.82  Definitions.

    The terms used in this subpart shall have the following meaning:
    (a) AMRAP means the Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program 
authorized by section 1010 of the Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act of 1980 (ANILCA), 16 U.S.C. 3150.
    (b) AMRAP Activities means any project, method, technique or other 
activity incidental to mineral resource assessments conducted by 
authorized AMRAP agencies or their contractors in units of the National 
Park System in Alaska pursuant to section 1010 of ANILCA under an 
approved permit. AMRAP activities include access into, across, through, 
or over a unit of the National Park System for the conduct of those 
activities. Only mineral resource assessment methods or techniques that 
do not result in lasting impacts on park resources and values may be 
permitted as AMRAP activities. Mineral resource assessment techniques 
may include aerial photography; remote sensing; hand-sampling of 
geologic materials; hand-sampling or

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hand-augering methods for geochemical analyses; and geophysical 
techniques such as magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, chemical, 
radioactive, and gravitational methods. Mineral resource assessment 
activities may be permitted as long as:
    (1) No explosives are used,
    (2) They are consistent with Sec.  9.86 of this subpart, and
    (3) They are consistent with the provisions of the Wilderness Act of 
1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and National Park Service policies 
concerning wilderness management and the use of motorized equipment in 
wilderness areas.
    Core and test drilling, including exploratory drilling of oil and 
gas test wells, are explicitly prohibited as AMRAP activities in units 
of the National Park System.
    (c) AMRAP agencies means those agencies of the U.S. Department of 
the Interior that are authorized by the Secretary to perform mineral 
resource assessment activities pursuant to section 1010 of ANILCA.
    (d) Superintendent means the Superintendent, or his/her designee, of 
the unit of the National Park System in Alaska where AMRAP activities 
are conducted or proposed to be conducted.

[56 FR 22652, May 16, 1991, as amended at 60 FR 55791, Nov. 3, 1995; 62 
FR 30234, June 3, 1997]