PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary may allow the removal or other disposal of sand, stone, gravel, and plant materials found below the high‑water line of Alaska’s navigable waters. If a contract to remove such materials is not fully carried out when the land’s ownership transfers to a new State at statehood, that State can cancel the contract or take it over.

Title 30, §604

Mineral Lands and Mining, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Subject to the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretary may dispose of sand, stone, gravel, and vegetative materials located below highwater mark of navigable waters of the Territory of Alaska. Any contract, unexecuted in whole or in part, for the disposal under this subchapter of materials from land, title to which is transferred to a future State upon its admission to the Union, and which is situated within its boundaries, may be terminated or adopted by such State.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain

Enforcement

functions of Secretary or other appropriate officer or entity in Departments of Agriculture and the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector of Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 601 of this title. Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by section 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§604 Disposal of Sand, Peat Moss, Etc., in Alaska; Contracts