[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC3183]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
SUBCHAPTER V--FEDERAL-STATE COOPERATION
Sec. 3183. Bristol Bay Cooperative Region
(a) Definitions
For purposes of this section--
(1) The term ``Governor'' means the Governor of the State of
Alaska.
(2) The term ``region'' means the land (other than any land
within the National Park System) within the Bristol Bay Cooperative
Region as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Bristol Bay-
Alaska Peninsula'', dated October 1979.
(b) Purpose
The purpose of this section is to provide for the preparation and
implementation of a comprehensive and systematic cooperative management
plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ``plan''), agreed
to by the United States and the State--
(1) to conserve the fish and wildlife and other significant
natural and cultural resources within the region;
(2) to provide for the rational and orderly development of
economic resources within the region in an environmentally sound
manner;
(3) to provide for such exchanges of land among the Federal
Government, the State, and other public or private owners as will
facilitate the carrying out of paragraphs (1) and (2);
(4) to identify any further lands within the region which are
appropriate for selections by the State under section 6 of the
Alaska Statehood Act and this Act; and
(5) to identify any further lands within the region which may be
appropriate for congressional designation as national conservation
system units.
(c) Federal-State cooperation in preparation of plans
(1) If within three months after December 2, 1980, the Governor
notifies the Secretary that the State wishes to participate in the
preparation of the plan, and that the Governor will, to the extent of
his authority, manage State lands within the region to conserve fish and
wildlife during such preparation, the Secretary and the Governor shall
undertake to prepare the plan which shall contain such provisions as are
necessary and appropriate to achieve the purposes set forth in
subsection (b) of this section, including but not limited to--
(A) the identification of the significant resources of the
region;
(B) the identification of present and potential uses of land
within the region;
(C) the identification of areas within the region according to
their significant resources and the present or potential uses within
each such area;
(D) the identification of land (other than any land within the
National Park System) which should be exchanged in order to
facilitate the conserving of fish and wildlife and the management
and development of other resources within the region; and
(E) the specification of the uses which may be permitted in each
area identified under paragraph (C) and the manner in which these
uses shall be regulated by the Secretary or the State, as
appropriate, if such plan is approved.
(2) The plan shall also--
(A) specify those elements of the plan, and its implementation,
which the Secretary or the Governor:
(i) may modify without prior approval of both parties to the
plan; and
(ii) may not modify without such prior approval; and
(B) include a description of the procedures which will be used
to make modifications to which paragraph (A)(i) applies.
(d) Action by Secretary if State does not participate in plan
If--
(1) the Secretary does not receive notification under subsection
(c) of this section that the State will participate in the
preparation of the plan; or
(2) after the State agrees to so participate, the Governor
submits to the Secretary written notification that the State is
terminating its participation;
the Secretary shall prepare a plan containing the provisions referred to
in subsection (c)(1) of this section (and containing a specification of
those elements in the plan which the Secretary may modify without prior
approval of Congress), and submit copies of such plan to the Congress,
as provided in subsection (e)(2) of this section, within three years
after December 2, 1980.
(e) Taking effect of plan
(1) If within three years after December 2, 1980, a plan has been
prepared under subsection (c) of this section which is agreed to by the
Secretary and the Governor, the plan shall take effect with respect to
the United States and the State.
(2) If the plan prepared pursuant to this section is agreed to by
the Secretary and the Governor includes any recommendations regarding
(i) the exchange of State lands, (ii) the management of Federal lands
within any conservation system unit, or (iii) any other actions which
require the approval of either the Congress or the Alaska State
Legislature, then the Secretary and the Governor shall submit to the
Congress and the State Legislature as appropriate, their proposals for
legislation necessary to carry out the recommendations contained in the
plan.
(f) Transitional provisions
On December 2, 1980, and for a period of three years thereafter, all
Federal land within the region (except that land conveyed by title IX of
this Act to the State of Alaska and Federal lands located within the
boundaries of conservation system units) shall be withdrawn from all
forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including selections
by the State, and from location and entry under the mining laws and from
leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], and shall
be managed by the Bureau of Land Management under its existing statutory
authority and consistent with provisions of this section.
(Pub. L. 96-487, title XII, Sec. 1203, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2470.)
References in Text
Section 6 of the Alaska Statehood Act, referred to in subsec.
(b)(4), is section 6 of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 399,
which is set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories
and Insular Possessions.
This Act, referred to in subsecs. (b)(4) and (f), is Pub. L. 96-487,
Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, as amended, known as the Alaska National
Interest Lands Conservation Act. Title IX of this Act
