Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§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

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

If no law applies, the agency head must, within four months after a final EIS, recommend authorizations to place a transport or utility inside the unit only if it serves the unit’s purpose and no economically feasible and prudent alternative route exists.

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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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102