[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: 43CFR2652.3]

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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 2652_Regional Selections
 
Sec. 2652.3  Selection limitations.

    (a) To the extent necessary to obtain its entitlement, each regional 
corporation must select all available lands withdrawn pursuant to 
sections 11(a)(1)(B) and (C) of the Act, before selecting lands 
withdrawn pursuant to section 11(a)(3) of the Act, except that regional 
corporations selecting lands withdrawn pursuant to sections 11(a)(1) (B) 
and (C) may select only even-numbered townships in even-numbered ranges 
and only odd-numbered townships in odd-numbered ranges.
    (b) Village corporation selections within section 11(a)(1) and 
section 11(a)(3) areas shall be given priority over regional corporation 
selections for the same lands.
    (c) Whenever a regional selection is made in any township, the 
regional corporation shall select all available lands in that township: 
Provided, That such selection would not exceed the entitlement of that 
regional corporation.
    (d) Subsurface selections made by a regional corporation pursuant to 
section 12(a) of the Act shall be contiguous and the total area selected 
shall be reasonably compact, except as separated by subsurface interests 
that are not the property of the United States including subsurface 
interests under bodies of water, and the selection shall be in whole 
sections where they are available, or shall include all available 
subsurface interests in less than whole sections and, wherever feasible, 
shall be in units of not less than 1,280 acres. The total area selected 
shall not be considered to be reasonably compact if (1) it excludes 
other subsurface interests available for selection within its exterior 
boundaries; or (2) an isolated tract of subsurface interests owned by 
the United States of less than 1,280 acres remains after selection.
    (e) Regional corporations are not required to select lands within 
unpatented mining claims or millsites, as provided in Sec. 2651.4(e) of 
this chapter.
    (f) Regional corporations may file applications in excess of their 
total entitlement. To insure that a regional corporation acquires its 
selections in the

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order of its priorities, it should identify its choices numerically in 
the order it wishes them granted.