Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
§ 3121. Rural residents engaged in subsistence uses
Statutory text
Access to subsistence resources
The Secretary shall ensure that rural residents engaged in subsistence uses shall have reasonable access to subsistence resources on the public lands.
Use of snowmobiles, motorboats, or other means of surface transportation
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or other law, the Secretary shall permit on the public lands appropriate use for subsistence purposes of snowmobiles, motorboats, and other means of surface transportation traditionally employed for such purposes by local residents, subject to reasonable regulation.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Pub. L. 96–487 title VIII § 811 · 94 Stat. 2371
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 3121
(Pub. L. 96–487, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2428.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–487, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2428.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 811. access (a) The Secretary shall ensure that rural residents engaged in subsistence uses shall have reasonable access to subsistence resources on the public lands. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or other law, the Secretary shall permit on the public lands appropriate use for subsistence purposes of snowmobiles, motorboats, and other means of surface transportation traditionally employed for such purposes by local residents, subject to reasonable regulation.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L 96–487, , 94 Stat. 2371, 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.