[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: 43CFR2566.1]



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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 2566_Alaska Railroad Townsites

 

Sec.  2566.1  General procedures.



    (a) Reservations. The Alaska Railroad will file with the Secretary 

of the Interior, when deemed necessary, its recommendations for the 

reservation of such areas as in its opinion may be needed for townsite 

purposes. The Secretary of the Interior will thereupon transmit such 

recommendations to the President with his objections thereto or 

concurrence therewith. If approved by the President, the reservation 

will be made by Executive order.

    (b) Survey. When in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior the 

public interests require a survey of any such reservation, he shall 

cause to be set aside such portions thereof for railroad purposes as may 

be selected by the Alaska Railroad, and cause the remainder, or any part 

thereof, to be surveyed into urban or suburban blocks and lots of 

suitable size, and into reservations for parks, schools, and other 

public purposes and for Government use. Highways should be laid out, 

where practicable, along all shore lines, and sufficient land for docks 

and wharf purposes along such shore lines should be reserved in such 

places as there is any apparent necessity therefor. The survey will be 

made under the supervision of the Bureau of Land Management.

    (c) Preference right. Any person residing in a reserved townsite at 

the time of the subdivisional survey thereof in the field and owning and 

having valuable and permanent improvements thereon, may, in the 

discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be granted a preference 

right of entry, of not exceeding two lots on which he may have such 

improvements by paying the appraised price fixed by the superintendent 

of sale, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may 

prescribe. Preference right proof and entry, when granted, must be made 

prior to the date of the public sale.