[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: 43CFR2650.2]

[Page 187-188]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2650_ALASKA NATIVE SELECTIONS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart 2650_Alaska Native Selections: Generally
 
Sec. 2650.2  Application procedures for land selections.

    (a) Applications for land selections must be filed on forms approved 
by the Director, Bureau of Land Management. Applications must be filed 
in accordance with subpart 1821 of this chapter.
    (b) Each regional corporation shall submit with its initial 
application under this section a copy of the resolution authorizing the 
individual filing the application to do so.
    (c) Each village corporation under subpart 2651 of this chapter must 
submit with its initial application under this section a certificate of 
incorporation, evidence of approval of its articles of incorporation by 
the regional corporation for that region, and a copy of the 
authorization of the individual filing the application to do so.
    (d)(1) Regional and village corporations authorized by the act 
subsequently filing additional or amendatory applications need only 
refer to the serial number of the initial filing.
    (2) Any change of the officer authorized to act for any corporation 
in the matter of land selections should be promptly submitted to the 
appropriate office of the Bureau of Land Management.
    (e)(1) If the lands applied for are surveyed, the legal description 
of the lands in accordance with the official plats of survey shall be 
used.
    (2) If the lands applied for are unsurveyed, they shall be described 
by protraction diagrams.
    (3) If the lands applied for are not surveyed and are not covered by 
protraction diagrams, they must be described by metes and bounds 
commencing at a readily identifiable topographic feature, such as a 
mountain peak, mouth of a stream, etc., or a monumented point of known 
position, such as a triangulation station, and the description must be 
accompanied by a topographic map delineating the boundary of the area 
applied for.
    (4) Where 1:63,360 U.S.G.S. quadrangle maps with the protraction 
diagram plotted thereon have been published, these maps shall be used to 
portray and describe the lands applied for. Where 1:63,360 U.S.G.S. 
quadrangle maps with the protraction diagram plotted thereon have not 
been published, then the 1:250,000 U.S.G.S. quadrangle maps with the 
protraction diagrams plotted thereon shall be used.
    (5) If the written description shown on the application and the map 
portrayal accompanying the application do not agree the delineation 
shown on the map shall be controlling.
    (f) The selected areas may be adjusted by the Secretary with the 
consent of the applicant and amendment of the application by the 
applicant, provided that the adjustment will not

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create an excess over the selection entitlement.