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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§3199 Navigation Aids and Other Facilities

Title 16 › Chapter 51— ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION › Subchapter VI— ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 3199

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows people to reach and care for existing air and water navigation aids, communications sites, and weather, climate, and fisheries research equipment inside protected areas created or expanded by the law. Facilities needed for national defense and their navigation aids can keep operating under their own rules. Being labeled "wilderness" by the law does not stop this work. Putting in new navigation aids, defense facilities, or research and monitoring sites is allowed only after the federal agency in charge talks with the proper Secretary (Interior or Agriculture, as fits) and they agree on conditions to reduce harm inside the area.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §3199

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(a)Within conservation system units established or expanded by this Act, reasonable access to, and operation and maintenance of, existing air and water navigation aids, communications sites and related facilities and existing facilities for weather, climate, and fisheries research and monitoring shall be permitted in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to units of such systems, as appropriate. Reasonable access to and operation and maintenance of facilities for national defense purposes and related air and water navigation aids within or adjacent to such areas shall continue in accordance with the laws and regulations governing such facilities notwithstanding any other provision of this Act. Nothing in the Wilderness Act [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.] shall be deemed to prohibit such access, operation and maintenance within wilderness areas designated by this Act.
(b)The establishment, operation, and maintenance within any conservation system unit of new air and water navigation aids and related facilities, facilities for national defense purposes, and related air and water navigation aids, and facilities for weather, climate, and fisheries research and monitoring shall be permitted but only (1) after consultation with the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, by the head of the Federal department or agency undertaking such establishment, operation, or maintenance, and (2) in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed in order to minimize the adverse effects of such activities within such unit.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 96–487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, known as the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables. The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 3199

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60