§3183 Bristol Bay Cooperative Region

Summary

Requires the United States and the State of Alaska to make and carry out a joint management plan for the Bristol Bay Cooperative Region to protect fish, wildlife, and other important natural and cultural resources, to guide sensible economic development, to arrange land exchanges that help those goals, and to identify lands the State may select under the Alaska Statehood Act and lands Congress might set aside as national conservation units. Governor = the Governor of Alaska. Region = the land shown on the “Bristol Bay–Alaska Peninsula” map dated October 1979, minus National Park System lands. If, within three months after December 2, 1980, the Governor tells the Secretary the State will join and will manage State lands to conserve fish and wildlife during planning, the Secretary and the Governor must prepare the plan. The plan must list important resources, current and possible land uses, areas by resource/use, lands (not in the National Park System) to be exchanged, allowed uses for each area, and how uses will be regulated. It must say which parts either party may change alone and which need joint approval, and how to make changes. If the State does not join or withdraws, the Secretary must prepare the plan and send it to Congress within three years after December 2, 1980. From December 2, 1980, and for three years, most Federal land in the region (except lands conveyed to Alaska by title IX and lands inside conservation units) is withdrawn from claims, mining, leasing, and State selections and will be managed by the Bureau of Land Management under its existing authority consistent with this law.