[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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[CITE: 43CFR2627.1]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

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

 

PART 2620_STATE GRANTS--Table of Contents

 

                           Subpart 2627_Alaska

 

Sec.  2627.1  Grant for community purposes.



    Source: 35 FR 9611, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) Authority. The Act of July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339, 340), grants 

to the State of Alaska the right to select, within 25 years after 

January 3, 1959, not to exceed 400,000 acres of national forest lands in 

Alaska which are vacant and unappropriated at the time of their 

selection and not to exceed 400,000 acres of other public lands in 

Alaska which are vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved at the time of 

their selection. The act provides that the selected



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lands must be adjacent to the established communities or suitable for 

prospective community centers and recreational areas. The act further 

provides that such lands shall be selected with the approval of the 

Secretary of Agriculture as to national forest lands and with the 

approval of the Secretary of the Interior as to other lands, and that no 

selection shall be made north and west of the line described in section 

10 of the act without approval of the President or his designated 

representative.

    (b) Applicable regulations. Unless otherwise indicated therein, the 

regulations in Sec.  2627.3 (a) to (d) apply to the grant and selection 

of lands for community purposes. In addition to the requirements of 

Sec.  2627.3(c), where the selected lands are national forest, the 

application for selection must be accompanied by a statement of the 

Secretary of Agriculture or his delegate showing that he approves the 

selection.

    (c) Approval of selections outside of national forests. Selection of 

lands outside of national forests will be approved by the authorized 

officer of the Bureau of Land Management if, all else being regular, he 

finds that approval of a selection of lands adjacent to an established 

community will further expansion of an established community, or if the 

lands are suitable for prospective community centers and recreational 

areas.