00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 474                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to public rights-of-way and easements for surface transportation                                       
02 affecting the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge."                                                                       
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 16.20.031(c) is amended to read:                                                                  
05            (c)  A public right-of-way for surface transportation and a utility corridor are                             
06       created across state-owned land and water within the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife                                   
07       Refuge between the Anchorage mainland and Fire Island.  The management plan                                       
08       prepared under (b) of this section shall identify the actual location on the land and                             
09       water of the right-of-way and of the utility corridor between the Anchorage mainland                              
10       and Fire Island.  Except for the public right-of-way and utility corridor created in                          
11       this subsection and identified in the management plan, for a realignment of the                               
12       right-of-way for the new Seward Highway, and for a realignment of the right-of-                               
13       way for the Alaska Railroad, a right-of-way or other easement for surface                                     
14       transportation may not be created below the top of the coastal bluff or below                                 

01       Campbell Lake without the prior approval of the legislature by law.