[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR13.162]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 13_NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM UNITS IN ALASKA--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart C_Cabins
 
Sec.  13.162  Permit issuance.

    (a) In making a decision on a permit application, the Superintendent 
shall consider whether the use by local rural residents of a cabin or 
other structure for subsistence purposes is customary and traditional in 
that park area and shall determine whether the use and occupancy of a 
new or existing cabin or structure is ``necessary to reasonably 
accommodate'' the applicant's subsistence uses. In making this 
determination, the Superintendent shall examine the applicant's 
particular circumstances, including but not limited to his or her past 
patterns of subsistence uses and his or her future subsistence use 
plans, reasonable subsistence use alternatives, the specific nature of

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the subsistence uses to be accommodated by the cabin or structure, the 
impacts of the cabin or structure on other local rural residents who 
depend on subsistence uses and the impacts of the proposed structure and 
activities on the values and purposes for which the park area was 
established.
    (b) The Superintendent may permit the construction of a new cabin or 
other new structure for subsistence purposes only if a tent or other 
temporary facility would not adequately and reasonably accommodate the 
applicant's subsistence uses without significant hardship and the use of 
no other type of cabin or other structure provided for in this subpart 
can adequately and reasonably accommodate the applicant's subsistence 
uses with a lesser impact on the values and purposes for which the park 
area was established.