§ 3101. Congressional statement of purpose
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(a)Establishment of units In order to preserve for the benefit, use, education, and inspiration of present and future generations certain lands and waters in the State of Alaska that contain nationally significant natural, scenic, historic, archeological, geological, scientific, wilderness, cultural, recreational, and wildlife values, the units described in the following titles are hereby established.
(b)Preservation and protection of scenic, geological, etc., values It is the intent of Congress in this Act to preserve unrivaled scenic and geological values associated with natural landscapes; to provide for the maintenance of sound populations of, and habitat for, wildlife species of inestimable value to the citizens of Alaska and the Nation, including those species dependent on vast relatively undeveloped areas; to preserve in their natural state extensive unaltered arctic tundra, boreal forest, and coastal rainforest ecosystems; to protect the resources related to subsistence needs; to protect and preserve historic and archeological sites, rivers, and lands, and to preserve wilderness resource values and related recreational opportunities including but not limited to hiking, canoeing, fishing, and sport hunting, within large arctic and subarctic wildlands and on freeflowing rivers; and to maintain opportunities for scientific research and undisturbed ecosystems.
(c)Subsistence way of life for rural residents It is further the intent and purpose of this Act consistent with management of fish and wildlife in accordance with recognized scientific principles and the purposes for which each conservation system unit is established, designated, or expanded by or pursuant to this Act, to provide the opportunity for rural residents engaged in a subsistence way of life to continue to do so.
(d)Need for future legislation obviated This Act provides sufficient protection for the national interest in the scenic, natural, cultural and environmental values on the public lands in Alaska, and at the same time provides adequate opportunity for satisfaction of the economic and social needs of the State of Alaska and its people; accordingly, the designation and disposition of the public lands in Alaska pursuant to this Act are found to represent a proper balance between the reservation of national conservation system units and those public lands necessary and appropriate for more intensive use and disposition, and thus Congress believes that the need for future legislation designating new conservation system units, new national conservation areas, or new national recreation areas, has been obviated thereby.
(Pub. L. 96–487, title I, § 101, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2374.)
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- § 668ddNational Wildlife Refuge System
- § 6802Recreation fee authority
- § 1611Native land selections
- § 3102Definitions
- § 3120Subsistence and land use decisions
- § 3150Alaska mineral resource assessment program
- § 3118Park and park monument subsistence resource commissions
- § 7202Establishment of the National Landscape Conservation System
- § 3192Land acquisition authority
- § 1621Miscellaneous provisions
- § 1635State selections and conveyances
- § 3161Congressional declaration of findings
- § 1636Alaska land bank
- § 410hhEstablishment of new areas
- § 3121Rural residents engaged in subsistence uses
- § 3170Special access and access to inholdings
- § 1620Taxation
- § 3113Definitions
- § 539dNational forest timber utilization program
- § 3212Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
- § 3193Use of cabins and other sites of occupancy on conservation system units
- § 3197Revenue-producing visitor services
- § 1617Revocation of Indian allotment authority in Alaska
- § 3166Agency, Presidential, and Congressional actions
- § 1212Applicability of other laws
- § 539Additions to existing national forests; administration
- § 3103Maps
- § 3202Taking of fish and wildlife
- § 3201Administration of national preserves
- § 1638National Environmental Policy Act
- § 3114Preference for subsistence uses
- § 101911Definitions
- § 1205Lands to be transferred
- § 3112Congressional statement of policy
- § 1631Ownership of submerged lands
- § 3141Overall study program
- § 101931Contract authority
- § 3204Allowed uses
- § 1784Lands in Alaska; designation as wilderness; management by Bureau of Land Management pending Congressional action
- § 3126Closure to subsistence uses
- § 3171Temporary access
- § 1641Conveyances to Village Corporations
- § 3183Bristol Bay Cooperative Region
- § 1248Easements and rights-of-way
- § 720eJudicial review
- § 3213Future executive branch actions
- § 3208Authorization of appropriations; contract authority
- § 1614Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from contingency area
- § 3232Recommendations of President to Congress
- § 3207Effect on existing rights; water resources
- § 1640Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units
- § 3211Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge agricultural use
- § 3205General wilderness review
- § 1633Administrative provisions
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- Pub. L. 96–487, title I, § 101
- 94 Stat. 2374
- Pub. L. 96–487
- 94 Stat. 2377–2551
- 94 Stat. 2371
- Pub. L. 96–487, § 1
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§ 3101
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Pub. L.Pub. L. 96–487, title I, § 101
Stat.94 Stat. 2374
Pub. L.Pub. L. 96–487
Stat.94 Stat. 2377–2551
Stat.94 Stat. 2371
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