[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 43CFR2561.0-3]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 2560_ALASKA OCCUPANCY AND USE--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart 2561_Native Allotments

 

Sec.  2561.0-3  Authority.



    The Act of May 17, 1906 (34 Stat. 197), as amended August 2, 1956 

(70 Stat. 954; 43 U.S.C. 270-1 to 270-3), authorizes the Secretary of 

the Interior to allot not to exceed 160 acres of vacant, unappropriated, 

and unreserved nonmineral land in Alaska or, subject to the provisions 

of the Act of March 8, 1922 (42 Stat. 415; 48 U.S.C. 376-377), of 

vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public land in Alaska that may be 

valuable for coal, oil, or gas deposits, or, under certain conditions, 

of national forest lands in Alaska, to any Indian, Aleut or Eskimo of 

full or mixed blood who resides in and is a native of Alaska, and who is 

the head of a family, or is twenty-one years of age.