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[CITE: 16USC3103]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3103. Maps


(a) Filing and availability for inspection; discrepancies; coastal areas

    The boundary maps described in this Act shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the office of the Secretary or the 
Secretary of Agriculture with regard to the National Forest System. In 
the event of discrepancies between the acreages specified in this Act 
and those depicted on such maps, the maps shall be controlling, but the 
boundaries of areas added to the National Park, Wildlife Refuge and 
National Forest System shall, in coastal areas not extend seaward beyond 
the mean high tide line to include lands owned by the State of Alaska 
unless the State shall have concurred in such boundary extension and 
such extension is accomplished under the notice and reporting 
requirements of this Act.

(b) Changes in land management status; publication in Federal Register; 
        filing; clerical errors; boundary features and adjustments

    As soon as practicable after December 2, 1980, a map and legal 
description of each change in land management status effected by this 
Act, including the National Wilderness Preservation System, shall be 
published in the Federal Register and filed with the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, and each such 
description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this 
Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical 
errors in each such legal description and map may be made. Each such map 
and legal description shall be on file and available for public 
inspection in the office of the Secretary. Whenever possible boundaries 
shall follow hydrographic divides or embrace other topographic or 
natural features. Following reasonable notice in writing to the Congress 
of his intention to do so the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture 
may make minor adjustments in the boundaries of the areas added to or 
established by this Act as units of National Park, Wildlife Refuge, Wild 
and Scenic Rivers, National Wilderness Preservation, and National Forest 
Systems and as national conservation areas and national recreation 
areas. For the purposes of this subsection, a minor boundary adjustment 
shall not increase or decrease the amount of land within any such area 
by more than 23,000 acres.

(c) Lands included within unit; acquisition of land by Secretary

    Only those lands within the boundaries of any conservation system 
unit which are public lands (as such term is defined in this Act) shall 
be deemed to be included as a portion of such unit. No lands which, 
before, on, or after December 2, 1980, are conveyed to the State, to any 
Native Corporation, or to any private party shall be subject to the 
regulations applicable solely to public lands within such units. If the 
State, a Native Corporation, or other owner desires to convey any such 
lands, the Secretary may acquire such lands in accordance with 
applicable law (including this Act), and any such lands shall become 
part of the unit, and be administered accordingly.

(Pub. L. 96-487, title I, Sec. 103, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2376.)

                       References in Text

    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 this title and 
Tables.
