[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: 43CFR2650.5-1]

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                    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. 2650.5-1  General.

    (a) Selected areas are to be surveyed as provided in section 13 of 
the Act. Any survey or description used as a basis for conveyance must 
be adequate to identify the lands to be conveyed.
    (b) The following procedures shall be used to determine what acreage 
is not to be charged against Native entitlement:
    (1) For any approved plat of survey where meanderable water bodies 
were not segregated from the survey but were included in the calculation 
of acreage to be charged against the Native corporation's land 
entitlement, the chargeable acreage shall, at no cost to the Native 
corporation, be recalculated to conform to the principles contained in 
the Bureau of Land Management's Manual of Surveying Instructions, 1973, 
except as modified by this part. Pursuant to such principles, the 
acreage of meanderable water bodies, as modified by this part, shall not 
be included in the acreage charged against the Native corporation's land 
entitlement.
    (2) For any plat of survey approved after December 5, 1983, water 
bodies shall be meandered and segregated from the survey in accordance 
with the principles contained in the Bureau of Land Management's Manual 
of Surveying Instructions, 1973, as modified by this part, as the basis 
for determining acreage chargeability.
    (3) If title to lands beneath navigable waters, as defined in the 
Submerged Lands Act, of a lake less than 50 acres in size or a river or 
stream less than 3 chains in width did not vest in the State on the date 
of Statehood, such lake, river or stream shall not be meandered and 
shall be charged against the Native corporation's entitlement.
    (4) Any determinations of meanders which may be made pursuant to 
this paragraph shall not require monumentation on the ground unless

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specifically required by law or for good cause in the public interest.

[38 FR 14218, May 30, 1973, as amended at 50 FR 15547, Apr. 19, 1985]