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[CITE: 16USC3213]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3213. Future executive branch actions

    (a) No future executive branch action which withdraws more than five 
thousand acres, in the aggregate, of public lands within the State of 
Alaska shall be effective except by compliance with this subsection. To 
the extent authorized by existing law, the President or the Secretary 
may withdraw public lands in the State of Alaska exceeding five thousand 
acres in the aggregate, which withdrawal shall not become effective 
until notice is provided in the Federal Register and to both Houses of 
Congress. Such withdrawal shall terminate unless Congress passes a joint 
resolution of approval within one year after the notice of such 
withdrawal has been submitted to Congress.
    (b) No further studies of Federal lands in the State of Alaska for 
the single purpose of considering the establishment of a conservation 
system unit, national recreation area, national conservation area, or 
for related or similar purposes shall be conducted unless authorized by 
this Act or further Act of Congress.

(Pub. L. 96-487, title XIII, Sec. 1326, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2488.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (b), 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.
