Sec. 8. Public participation program
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The Council may establish and implement a public participation program to assist the Council in carrying out the duties of the Council under this Act. The program established under subsection
(a)may include a committee of land use advisors composed of representatives of commercial and industrial land users in the State, recreational land users, wilderness users, environmental groups, Native Corporations, tribal organizations, and other public and private organizations, to be appointed by the Council. To the maximum extent practicable, the membership of the committee established under paragraph
(1)shall provide a balanced mixture of national, State, and local perspectives and expertise on land and resource use issues. The program established under subsection
(a)may include— a system for the identification of persons and communities in rural and urban Alaska that may be directly or significantly affected by studies conducted, or advice and recommendations given, by the Council under this Act; and guidelines for, and implementation of, a system for effective public participation by the persons and communities described in paragraph
(1)in the development of the studies, advice, and recommendations by the Council.