Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§3165 Standards for Granting Certain Authorizations
Title 16 › Chapter 51— ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION › Subchapter IV— TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY SYSTEMS IN AND ACROSS, AND ACCESS INTO, CONSERVATION SYSTEM UNITS › § 3165
Summary
If no law covers a needed transportation or utility system, the head of the federal agency must, within four months after the final Environmental Impact Statement is filed, recommend authorizations to build all or part of the system inside the conservation unit only if it is compatible with the unit’s purposes and no alternative route is both economically feasible and prudent.
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Title 16, §3165
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In any case in which there is no applicable law with respect to a transportation or utility system, the head of the Federal agency concerned shall, within four months after the date of filing of any final Environmental Impact Statement, make recommendations, for purposes of section 3166(b) of this title, to grant such authorizations as may be necessary to establish such system, in whole or in part, within the conservation system unit concerned if he determines that—
(1)such system would be compatible with the purposes for which the unit was established; and
(2)there is no economically feasible and prudent alternative route for the system.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 3165
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60