[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: 43CFR2653.3]

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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 2653_Miscellaneous Selections
 
Sec. 2653.3  Lands available for selection.

    (a) Selection may be made for existing cemetery sites or historical 
places, Native groups, corporations formed by the Natives residing in 
Sitka, Kenai, Juneau, and Kodiak, and for primary places of residence, 
from any unappropriated and unreserved lands which the Secretary may 
withdraw for these purposes: Provided, That National Wildlife Refuge 
System lands and National Forest lands may be made available as provided 
by section 14(h)(7) of the Act and the regulations in this subpart. 
Selections for these purposes may also be made from any unappropriated 
and unreserved lands which the Secretary may withdraw from lands 
formerly withdrawn and not selected under section 16 of the Act and 
after December 18, 1975, from lands formerly withdrawn under section 
11(a)(1) or 11(a)(3) and not selected under sections 12 or 19 of the 
Act.
    (b) After December 18, 1975, selection of the lands allocated 
pursuant to Sec. 2653.1(b), shall be made from any lands previously 
withdrawn under sections 11 or 16 of the Act which are not otherwise 
appropriated.
    (c) A withdrawal made pursuant to section 17(d)(1) of the Act which 
is not part of the Secretary's recommendation to Congress of December 
18, 1973,

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on the four national systems shall not preclude a withdrawal pursuant to 
section 14(h) of the Act.

[41 FR 14737, Apr. 7, 1976; 41 FR 17909, Apr. 29, 1976]