[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR36.11]

[Page 381]
 
                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                          INTERIOR--(Continued)
 
PART 36_ALASKA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart B_Subsistence Uses
 
Sec. 36.11  Purpose and policy.


    (a) Consistent with the management of fish and wildlife in 
accordance with recognized scientific principles and the purposes for 
which each Alaska National Wildlife refuge was established, designated, 
or expanded by ANILCA, the purpose of this subpart is to provide the 
opportunity for local rural residents engaged in a subsistence way of 
life to do so pursuant to applicable State and Federal law.
    (b) Consistent with sound management principles and the conservation 
of healthy populations of fish and wildlife, the utilization of Alaska 
National Wildlife Refuges is to cause the least adverse impact possible 
on local rural residents who depend upon subsistence uses of the 
resources of the public lands in Alaska.
    (c) Nonwasteful subsistence uses of fish, wildlife and other 
renewable resources by local rural residents shall be the priority 
consumptive uses of such resources over any other consumptive uses 
permitted within Alaska National Wildlife Refuge areas.
    (d) The State of Alaska is authorized to regulate the taking of fish 
and wildlife for subsistence uses within Alaska National Wildlife 
Refuges to the extent such regulation is consistent with applicable 
Federal Law, including but not limited to ANILCA.
    (e) Nothing in this subpart shall be construed as permitting the 
level of subsistence uses of fish and wildlife within Alaska National 
Wildlife Refuges to be inconsistent with the conservation of healthy 
populations of fish and wildlife.