[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: 43CFR2650.2]



[Page 183-184]

 

                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

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

 

PART 2650_ALASKA NATIVE SELECTIONS--Table of Contents

 

            Subpart 2650_Alaska Native Selections: Generally

 

Sec.  2650.2  Application procedures for land selections.



    (a) Applications for land selections must be filed on forms approved 

by the Director, Bureau of Land Management. Applications must be filed 

in accordance with subpart 1821 of this chapter.

    (b) Each regional corporation shall submit with its initial 

application under this section a copy of the resolution authorizing the 

individual filing the application to do so.

    (c) Each village corporation under subpart 2651 of this chapter must 

submit with its initial application under this section a certificate of 

incorporation, evidence of approval of its articles of incorporation by 

the regional corporation for that region, and a copy of the 

authorization of the individual filing the application to do so.

    (d)(1) Regional and village corporations authorized by the act 

subsequently filing additional or amendatory applications need only 

refer to the serial number of the initial filing.

    (2) Any change of the officer authorized to act for any corporation 

in the matter of land selections should be promptly submitted to the 

appropriate office of the Bureau of Land Management.

    (e)(1) If the lands applied for are surveyed, the legal description 

of the lands in accordance with the official plats of survey shall be 

used.

    (2) If the lands applied for are unsurveyed, they shall be described 

by protraction diagrams.

    (3) If the lands applied for are not surveyed and are not covered by 

protraction diagrams, they must be described by metes and bounds 

commencing at a readily identifiable topographic feature, such as a 

mountain peak, mouth of a stream, etc., or a monumented point of known 

position, such as a triangulation station, and the description must be 

accompanied by a topographic map delineating the boundary of the area 

applied for.

    (4) Where 1:63,360 U.S.G.S. quadrangle maps with the protraction 

diagram plotted thereon have been published, these maps shall be used to 

portray and describe the lands applied for. Where 1:63,360 U.S.G.S. 

quadrangle maps with the protraction diagram plotted thereon have not 

been published, then the 1:250,000 U.S.G.S. quadrangle maps with the 

protraction diagrams plotted thereon shall be used.

    (5) If the written description shown on the application and the map 

portrayal accompanying the application do not agree the delineation 

shown on the map shall be controlling.

    (f) The selected areas may be adjusted by the Secretary with the 

consent of the applicant and amendment of the application by the 

applicant, provided that the adjustment will not



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create an excess over the selection entitlement.