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[CITE: 16USC3203]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3203. Wilderness management


(a) Application only to Alaska

    The provisions of this section are enacted in recognition of the 
unique conditions in Alaska. Nothing in this section shall be construed 
to expand, diminish, or modify the provisions of the Wilderness Act [16 
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.] or the application or interpretation of such 
provisions with respect to lands outside of Alaska.

(b) Aquaculture

    In accordance with the goal of restoring and maintaining fish 
production in the State of Alaska to optimum sustained yield levels and 
in a manner which adequately assures protection, preservation, 
enhancement, and rehabilitation of the wilderness resource, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may permit fishery research, management, 
enhancement, and rehabilitation activities within national forest 
wilderness and national forest wilderness study areas designated by this 
Act. Subject to reasonable regulations, permanent improvements and 
facilities such as fishways, fish weirs, fish ladders, fish hatcheries, 
spawning channels, stream clearance, egg planting, and other accepted 
means of maintaining, enhancing, and rehabilitating fish stocks may be 
permitted by the Secretary to achieve this objective. Any fish hatchery, 
fishpass or other aquaculture facility authorized for any such area 
shall be constructed, managed, and operated in a manner that minimizes 
adverse impacts on the wilderness character of the area. Developments 
for any such activities shall involve those facilities essential to 
these operations and shall be constructed in such rustic manner as to 
blend into the natural character of the area. Reasonable access solely 
for the purposes of this subsection, including temporary use of 
motorized equipment, shall be permitted in furtherance of research, 
management, rehabilitation and enhancement activities subject to 
reasonable regulations as the Secretary deems desirable to maintain the 
wilderness character, water quality, and fish and wildlife values of the 
area.

(c) Existing cabins

    Previously existing public use cabins within wilderness designated 
by this Act, may be permitted to continue and may be maintained or 
replaced subject of such restrictions as the Secretary deems necessary 
to preserve the wilderness character of the area.

(d) New cabins

    Within wilderness areas designated by this Act, the Secretary or the 
Secretary of Agriculture as appropriate, is authorized to construct and 
maintain a limited number of new public use cabins and shelters if such 
cabins and shelters are necessary for the protection of the public 
health and safety. All such cabins or shelters shall be constructed of 
materials which blend and are compatible with the immediate and 
surrounding wilderness landscape. The Secretary or the Secretary of 
Agriculture, as appropriate, shall notify the House Committee on Natural 
Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
his intention to remove an existing or construct a new public use cabin 
or shelter.

(e) Timber contracts

    The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to modify any 
existing national forest timber sale contracts applying to lands 
designated by this Act as wilderness by substituting, to the extent 
practicable, timber on the other national forest lands approximately 
equal in volume, species, grade, and accessibility for timber or 
relevant lands within such units.

(f) Beach log salvage

    With National Forest wilderness and national forest monuments 
desginated \1\ by this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may permit or 
otherwise regulate the recovery and salvage of logs from coastlines.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``designated''.
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(Pub. L. 96-487, title XIII, Sec. 1315, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2484; 
Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(d)(31), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)

                       References in Text

    The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 88-577, 
Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, as amended, which is classified generally 
to chapter 23 (Sec. 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1131 of this title and Tables.
    This Act, referred to in subsecs. (b) to (f), 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.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' 
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
