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[CITE: 16USC3162]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
  SUBCHAPTER IV--TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY SYSTEMS IN AND ACROSS, AND 
                 ACCESS INTO, CONSERVATION SYSTEM UNITS
 
Sec. 3162. Definitions

    For purposes of this subchapter--
    (1) The term ``applicable law'' means any law of general 
applicability (other than this subchapter) under which any Federal 
department or agency has jurisdiction to grant any authorization 
(including but not limited to, any right-of-way, permit, license, lease, 
or certificate) without which a transportation or utility system cannot, 
in whole or in part, be established or operated.
    (2) The term ``applicant'' means any public or private person, 
including, but not limited to, any Federal department or agency.
    (3) The term ``Federal agency'' means any Federal department or 
agency that has any function or duty under applicable law.
    (4)(A) The term ``transportation or utility system'' means any type 
of system described in subparagraph (B) if any portion of the route of 
the system will be within any conservation system unit, national 
recreation area, or national conservation area in the State (and the 
system is not one that the department or agency having jurisdiction over 
the unit or area is establishing incident to its management of the unit 
or area).
    (B) The types of systems to which subparagraph (A) applies are as 
follows:
        (i) Canals, ditches, flumes, laterals, pipes, pipelines, 
    tunnels, and other systems for the transportation of water.
        (ii) Pipelines and other systems for the transportation of 
    liquids other than water, including oil, natural gas, synthetic 
    liquid and gaseous fuels, and any refined product produced 
    therefrom.
        (iii) Pipelines, slurry and emulsion systems and conveyor belts 
    for the transportation of solid materials.
        (iv) Systems for the transmission and distribution of electric 
    energy.
        (v) Systems for transmission or reception of radio, television, 
    telephone, telegraph, and other electronic signals, and other means 
    of communication.
        (vi) Improved rights-of-way for snow machines, air cushion 
    vehicles, and other all-terrain vehicles.
        (vii) Roads, highways, railroads, tunnels, tramways, airports, 
    landing strips, docks, and other systems of general transportation.

Any system described in this subparagraph includes such related 
structures and facilities (both temporary and permanent) along the route 
of the system as may be minimally necessary for the construction, 
operation, and maintenance of this system. Such related structures and 
facilities shall be described in the application required by section 
3164 of this title, and shall be approved or disapproved in accordance 
with the procedures set forth in this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 96-487, title XI, Sec. 1102, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2458.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3164 of this title.
