[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2561.1]

[Page 143-144]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2560_ALASKA OCCUPANCY AND USE--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart 2561_Native Allotments
 
Sec. 2561.1  Applications.

    (a) Applications for allotment properly and completely executed on a 
form approved by the Director, Bureau of Land Management, must be filed 
in the proper office which has jurisdiction over the lands.
    (b) Any application for allotment of lands which extend more than 
160 rods along the shore of any navigable waters shall be considered a 
request for waiver of the 160-rod limitation (see part 2094 of this 
chapter).
    (c) If surveyed, the land must be described in the application 
according to legal subdivisions and must conform to the plat of survey 
when possible. If unsurveyed, it must be described as accurately as 
possible by metes and bounds and tied to natural objects. On unsurveyed 
lands, the application should be accompanied by a map or approved 
protracted survey diagram showing approximately the lands included in 
the application.
    (d) An application for allotment shall be rejected unless the 
authorized officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs certifies that the 
applicant is a native qualified to make application under the Allotment 
Act, that the applicant

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has occupied and posted the lands as stated in the application, and that 
the claim of the applicant does not infringe on other native claims or 
area of native community use.
    (e) The filing of an acceptable application for a Native allotment 
will segregate the lands. Thereafter, subsequent conflicting 
applications for such lands shall be rejected, except when the 
conflicting application is made for the conveyance of lands pursuant to 
any provision of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 
et seq.).
    (f) By the filing of an application for allotment the applicant 
acquires no rights except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section. 
If the applicant does not submit the required proof within six years of 
the filing of his application in the proper office, his application for 
allotment will terminate without affecting the rights he gained by 
virtue of his occupancy of the land or his right to make another 
application.

[35 FR 9597, June 13, 1970, as amended at 39 FR 34542, Sept. 26, 1974]