[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: 43CFR2627.2]



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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.  2627.2  Grant for University of Alaska.



    (a) Statutory authority. The Act of January 21, 1929 (45 Stat. 

1091), as supplemented July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339, 343; 43 U.S.C. 852 

Note), grants to the State of Alaska, for the exclusive use and benefit 

of the University of Alaska, the unsatisfied portion of 100,000 acres of 

vacant, surveyed, unreserved public lands in said State, to be selected 

by the State, under the direction and subject to the approval of the 

Secretary of the Interior, and subject to the conditions and limitations 

expressed in the act.

    (b) Applications for selection. (1) Applications to select lands 

under the grant made to Alaska by the Act of January 21, 1929, will be 

made by the proper selecting agent of the State and will be filed in the 

proper office of the district in which such selected lands are situated. 

Such selections must be made in accordance with the law and with the 

applicable regulations governing selection of lands by States as set 

forth in part 2620.

    (2) Notice of selection and publication is required as provided by 

Sec.  2627.5 (b) and (c).

    (3) Each list of selections must contain a reference to the act 

under which the selections are made and must be accompanied by a 

certificate of the selecting agent showing the selections are made under 

and pursuant to the laws of the State of Alaska.

    (4) The selections in any one list must not exceed 6,400 acres.

    (5) Each list must be accompanied by a certification of the 

selecting agent stating that the acreage selected together with the 

cumulative acreage total of all prior sales for lists pending and 

finally approved for clear-listing or patenting does not exceed 100,000 

acres.

    (c) Statement with application. Every application for selection 

under the Act of January 21, 1929, must be accompanied by a duly 

corroborated statement making the following showing as to the lands 

sought to be selected.

    (1) That no portion of the land is occupied for any purpose by the 

United States and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the land 

is unoccupied, unimproved, and unappropriated by any person claiming the 

same other than the applicant; and that at the date of the application 

no part of the land was claimed under the mining laws.

    (2) That the land applied for does not extend more than 160 rods 

along the shore of any navigable water or that such restriction has been 

or should be waived. (See Sec.  2094.2 of this chapter.)

    (3) All facts relative to medicinal or hot springs or other waters 

upon the lands must be stated.