[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: 43CFR2566.1]

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                    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 2566_Alaska Railroad Townsites
 
Sec. 2566.1  General procedures.

    (a) Reservations. The Alaska Railroad will file with the Secretary 
of the Interior, when deemed necessary, its recommendations for the 
reservation of such areas as in its opinion may be needed for townsite 
purposes. The Secretary of the Interior will thereupon transmit such 
recommendations to the President with his objections thereto or 
concurrence therewith. If approved by the President, the reservation 
will be made by Executive order.
    (b) Survey. When in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior the 
public interests require a survey of any such reservation, he shall 
cause to be set aside such portions thereof for railroad purposes as may 
be selected by the Alaska Railroad, and cause the remainder, or any part 
thereof, to be surveyed into urban or suburban blocks and lots of 
suitable size, and into reservations for parks, schools, and other 
public purposes and for Government use. Highways should be laid out, 
where practicable, along all shore lines, and sufficient land for docks 
and wharf purposes along such shore lines should be reserved in such 
places as there is any apparent necessity therefor. The survey will be 
made under the supervision of the Bureau of Land Management.
    (c) Preference right. Any person residing in a reserved townsite at 
the time of the subdivisional survey thereof in the field and owning and 
having valuable and permanent improvements thereon, may, in the 
discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be granted a preference 
right of entry, of not exceeding two lots on which he may have such 
improvements by paying the appraised price fixed by the superintendent 
of sale, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may 
prescribe. Preference right proof and entry, when granted, must be made 
prior to the date of the public sale.