§3183 Bristol Bay Cooperative Region

Summary

Requires the Governor of Alaska and the federal Secretary to work together to make a joint management plan for the Bristol Bay Cooperative Region. The plan must protect fish, wildlife, and important natural and cultural resources. It must also guide sensible, environmentally safe economic development, arrange land exchanges to help those goals, point out lands the State may select under section 6 of the Alaska Statehood Act and this Act, and identify lands that Congress might make into conservation units. Governor — the Governor of the State of Alaska. Region — the land shown on the “Bristol Bay-Alaska” map (October 1979), except lands in the National Park System. If, within three months after December 2, 1980, the Governor tells the Secretary the State will join and will manage State lands to protect fish and wildlife while the plan is made, they must prepare a plan that names key resources, current and possible land uses, areas by resource/use, lands (not in the National Park System) to be exchanged, and allowed uses and rules for each area. The plan must say which parts either party can change alone and which need both parties’ approval, and how changes will be made. If the Secretary and Governor agree on a plan within three years after December 2, 1980, it takes effect for both. If the plan asks for actions needing Congress or the Alaska Legislature, the Secretary and Governor must send proposed laws. From December 2, 1980, for three years, most Federal land in the region (except lands given to the State by title IX and lands inside conservation units) is withdrawn from public land claims, mining location, and mineral leasing, and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management under its existing authority and this plan.