Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
§ 3161. Congressional declaration of findings
Statutory text
Congress finds that—
Alaska’s transportation and utility network is largely undeveloped and the future needs for transportation and utility systems in Alaska would best be identified and provided for through an orderly, continuous decisionmaking process involving the State and Federal Governments and the public;
the existing authorities to approve or disapprove applications for transportation and utility systems through public lands in Alaska are diverse, dissimilar, and, in some cases, absent; and
to minimize the adverse impacts of siting transportation and utility systems within units established or expanded by this Act and to insure the effectiveness of the decisionmaking process, a single comprehensive statutory authority for the approval or disapproval of applications for such systems must be provided in this Act.
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 XI § 1101 · 94 Stat. 2371
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 3161
(Pub. L. 96–487, title XI, § 1101, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2457.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–487, title XI, § 1101, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2457.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1101. findings Congress finds that— 16 USC 3161. (a) Alaska’s transportation and utility network is largely undeveloped and the future needs for transportation and utility systems in Alaska would best be identified and provided for through an orderly, continuous decisionmaking process involving the State and Federal Governments and the public; (b) the existing authorities to approve or disapprove applications for transportation and utility systems through public lands in Alaska are diverse, dissimilar, and, in some cases, absent; and (c) to minimize the adverse impacts of siting transportation and utility systems within units established or expanded by this Act and to insure the effectiveness of the decisionmaking process, a single comprehensive statutory authority for the approval or disapproval of applications for such systems must be provided in this Act.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in subsec. (c), 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.