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[CITE: 16USC3161]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
  SUBCHAPTER IV--TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY SYSTEMS IN AND ACROSS, AND 
                 ACCESS INTO, CONSERVATION SYSTEM UNITS
 
Sec. 3161. Congressional declaration of findings

    Congress finds that--
    (a) Alaska's transportation and utility network is largely 
undeveloped and the future needs for transportation and utility systems 
in Alaska would best be identified and provided for through an orderly, 
continuous decisionmaking process involving the State and Federal 
Governments and the public;
    (b) the existing authorities to approve or disapprove applications 
for transportation and utility systems through public lands in Alaska 
are diverse, dissimilar, and, in some cases, absent; and
    (c) to minimize the adverse impacts of siting transportation and 
utility systems within units established or expanded by this Act and to 
insure the effectiveness of the decisionmaking process, a single 
comprehensive statutory authority for the approval or disapproval of 
applications for such systems must be provided in this Act.

(Pub. L. 96-487, title XI, Sec. 1101, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2457.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L 96-487, Dec. 2, 
1980, 94 Stat. 2371, as amended, known as the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3101 of this title and 
Tables.