§ 1640. — Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1640]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 33A--IMPLEMENTATION OF ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT AND
ALASKA STATEHOOD
Sec. 1640. Relinquishment of selections partly within
conservation units
Whenever a valid State or Native selection is partly in and partly
out of the boundary of a conservation system unit, notwithstanding any
other provision of law to the contrary, the State or any Native
Corporation may relinquish its rights in any portion of any validly
selected Federal land, including land underneath waters, which lies
within the boundary of the conservation system unit. Upon
relinquishment, the Federal land (including land underneath waters) so
relinquished within the boundary of the conservation system unit shall
become, and be administered as, a part of the conservation system unit.
The total land entitlement of the State or Native Corporation shall not
be affected by such relinquishment. In lieu of the lands and waters
relinquished by the State, the State may select pursuant to the Alaska
Statehood Act as amended by this Act, an equal acreage of other lands
available for such purpose. The Native Corporation may retain an equal
acreage from overselection lands on which selection applications were
otherwise properly and timely filed. A relinquishment pursuant to this
section shall not invalidate an otherwise valid State or Native
Corporation land selection outside the boundaries of the conservation
system unit, on the grounds that, after such relinquishment, the
remaining portion of the land selection no longer meets applicable
requirements of size, compactness, or contiguity, or that the portion of
the selection retained immediately outside the conservation system unit
does not follow section lines along the boundary of the conservation
system unit. The validity of the selection outside such boundary shall
not be adversely affected by the relinquishment.
(Pub. L. 96-487, title XIV, Sec. 1415, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2499.)
References in Text
The Alaska Statehood Act as amended by this Act, referred to in
text, is Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339 as amended by Pub.
L. 96-487, Dec. 2, 1980, 96 Stat. 2371, which is set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 96-487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94
Stat. 2371, as amended, known as the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code,
see Short Title note set out under section 3101 of Title 16,
Conservation, and Tables.
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of title IX of Pub. L. 96-487 which
comprises this chapter.
