§3103 Maps

Summary

Put maps showing the new boundaries on file at the Secretary’s office, or at the Secretary of Agriculture’s office for National Forests, and make them open for the public to see. If the acre numbers in the law don’t match the maps, the maps control. Coastal boundaries must not reach seaward past the mean high tide line to include land owned by the State of Alaska unless the State agrees and the extension follows the Act’s notice and reporting rules. As soon as practicable after December 2, 1980, a map and a legal description of each change must be published in the Federal Register and given to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate; those descriptions count as if they were written into the law. Clerical and typographical errors can be fixed. Boundaries should follow rivers, ridges, or other natural features where possible, and after notifying Congress the Secretaries may make minor boundary tweaks that do not add or remove more than 23,000 acres. Only lands that are public lands inside those boundaries count as part of the park, refuge, forest, wilderness, or other unit. Lands given or sold to the State, a Native Corporation, or a private owner before, on, or after December 2, 1980 are not treated as public lands under the unit’s rules. If the State, a Native Corporation, or another owner wants to sell such lands, the Secretary may buy them under the law, and then they become part of the unit and are managed the same way.