Alaska Conservation Act - Provides for the addition of specified lands in the State of Alaska to the National Park, National Wildlife Refuge, National Forest, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Systems.
Title I: National Park System - Adds specified areas to the existing Mount McKinley and Katmai National Parks. Establishes nine new areas in Alaska as national monuments, parks, rivers and reserves. Sets forth general administration provisions governing such areas, including: (1) boundaries and acquisition of property; (2) applicability of mining and mineral leasing laws; (3) sport hunting; (4) subsistence uses; (5) cooperative agreements; and (6) wilderness review for suitability of such areas.
Designates seven additions to the Wild and Scenic River System.
Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this title.
Title II: National Wildlife Refuge System - Establishes twelve national wildlife refuges, one national arctic range and one national resource range. Sets forth general administrative procedures governing such lands.
Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
Title III: National Forest System - Establishes the Wrangell Mountains, Porcupine and Yukon - Kuskokwim National Forests. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
Title IV: Additions to National Wild and Scenic Rivers System Located Outside National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and National Forests - Designates specified streams, rivers, and segments in Alaska as scenic rivers. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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