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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1640. Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units
Whenever a valid State or Native selection is partly in and
partly out of the boundary of a conservation system unit,
notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
State or any Native Corporation may relinquish its rights in any
portion of any validly selected Federal land, including land
underneath waters, which lies within the boundary of the
conservation system unit. Upon relinquishment, the Federal land
(including land underneath waters) so relinquished within the
boundary of the conservation system unit shall become, and be
administered as, a part of the conservation system unit. The total
land entitlement of the State or Native Corporation shall not be
affected by such relinquishment. In lieu of the lands and waters
relinquished by the State, the State may select pursuant to the
Alaska Statehood Act as amended by this Act, an equal acreage of
other lands available for such purpose. The Native Corporation may
retain an equal acreage from overselection lands on which selection
applications were otherwise properly and timely filed. A
relinquishment pursuant to this section shall not invalidate an
otherwise valid State or Native Corporation land selection outside
the boundaries of the conservation system unit, on the grounds
that, after such relinquishment, the remaining portion of the land
selection no longer meets applicable requirements of size,
compactness, or contiguity, or that the portion of the selection
retained immediately outside the conservation system unit does not
follow section lines along the boundary of the conservation system
unit. The validity of the selection outside such boundary shall not
be adversely affected by the relinquishment.
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