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[CITE: 16USC3197]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3197. Revenue-producing visitor services


(a) Continuation of existing visitor services

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary, under 
such terms and conditions as he determines are reasonable, shall permit 
any persons who, on or before January 1, 1979, were engaged in 
adequately providing any type of visitor service within any area 
established as or added to a conservation system unit to continue 
providing such type of service and similar types of visitor services 
within such area if such service or services are consistent with the 
purposes for which such unit is established or expanded.

(b) Preference

    Notwithstanding provisions of law other than those contained in 
subsection (a), of this section, in selecting persons to provide (and in 
contracting for the provision of) any type of visitor service for any 
conservation system unit, except sport fishing and hunting guiding 
activities, the Secretary--
        (1) shall give preference to the Native Corporations which the 
    Secretary determines are most directly affected by the establishment 
    or expansion of such unit by or under the provisions of this Act;
        (2) shall give preference to persons whom he determines, by 
    rule, are local residents; and
        (3) shall, consistent with the provisions of this section, offer 
    to Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated, in cooperation with Village 
    Corporations within the Cook Inlet Region when appropriate, the 
    right of first refusal to provide new revenue producing visitor 
    services within the Kenai National Moose Range or that portion of 
    the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve within the boundaries of 
    the Cook Inlet Region that right to remain open for a period of 
    ninety days as agreed to in paragraph VIII of the document referred 
    to in section 12 of the Act of January 2, 1976 (Public Law 94-204).

(c) ``Visitor service'' defined

    As used in this section, the term ``visitor service'' means any 
service made available for a fee or charge to persons who visit a 
conservation system unit, including such services as providing food, 
accommodations, transportation, tours, and guides excepting the guiding 
of sport hunting and fishing. Nothing in this Act shall limit or affect 
the authority of the Federal Government or the State of Alaska to 
license and regulate transportation services.

(Pub. L. 96-487, title XIII, Sec. 1307, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2479; 
Pub. L. 105-333, Sec. 10, Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3134.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsecs. (b)(1) and (c), 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.
    Section 12 of the Act of January 2, 1976 (Public Law 94-204), 
referred to in subsec. (b)(3), is section 12 of Pub. L. 94-204, Jan. 2, 
1976, 89 Stat. 1150, which is set out as a note under section 1611 of 
Title 43, Public Lands.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 105-333 substituted ``Native 
Corporations'' for ``Native Corporation'' and ``are most directly 
affected'' for ``is most directly affected''.
