HB 162: "An Act establishing the Southeast State Forest and relating to the Southeast State Forest; and providing for an effective date."
00 HOUSE BILL NO. 162 01 "An Act establishing the Southeast State Forest and relating to the Southeast State 02 Forest; and providing for an effective date." 03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. AS 41.17 is amended by adding a new section to read: 05 Sec. 41.17.500. Southeast State Forest. (a) Subject to valid existing rights, 06 the state-owned or acquired land and water lying within the parcels described in (d) of 07 this section is designated as the Southeast State Forest. 08 (b) The commissioner shall prepare a management plan for the Southeast State 09 Forest under AS 41.17.230. 10 (c) The commissioner may establish transportation corridors within the 11 Southeast State Forest. 12 (d) The Southeast State Forest includes the state-owned or acquired land 13 within the following described parcels: 14 (1) Township 62 South, Range 84 East, Copper River Meridian
01 Section 9: E1/2 SE1/4, Government Lots 1 and 2 02 Section 10: S1/2 03 Section 11: N1/2, E1/2 SE1/4, W1/2 SW1/4, and Government Lots 04 1, 2, 3, and 4 05 Section 12: W1/2, W1/2E1/2 06 Section 13: W1/2W1/2, NE1/4NW1/4, NW1/4NE1/4 07 Section 14: E1/2 NE1/4, E1/2 SE1/4, W1/2 NW1/4, and 08 Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 09 Section 15: N1/2, N1/2SE1/4, NE1/4SW1/4 10 Section 16: Government Lot 1, and the portion of Government Lot 11 2 Northerly of the East-West Centerline of Section 16 12 Section 23: NE 1/4 NE1/4, and Government Lots 1 and 3 13 Section 24: SE1/4NW1/4, W1/2NW1/4, SW1/4NE1/4, NE1/4 14 SW1/4, W1/2SE1/4, and Government Lots 1 and 2 15 Section 25: NE1/4 NE1/4, and Government Lots 1, 2, and 3 16 (2) Township 65 South, Range 78 East, Copper River Meridian 17 Section 36: E1/2 18 (3) Township 65 South, Range 79 East, Copper River Meridian 19 Section 31: E1/2 NW1/4, and Government Lots 1 and 2 20 (4) Township 65 South, Range 89 East, Copper River Meridian 21 Tract A: The portion within Protracted Sections 25 and 36, and the 22 portion in the E1/2 E1/2 of Protracted Section 26. 23 (5) Township 65 South, Range 90 East, Copper River Meridian 24 Tracts A, B, C, D, E, F, and G; Tract H: the portion within 25 Protracted Sections 13, 14, 15, and 24, and the portion within the 26 N1/2 NE1/4 of Protracted Section 23; Tract K within Protracted 27 Section 30; and Tract L. 28 (6) Township 66 South, Range 78 East, Copper River Meridian 29 Section 1: E1/2, SW1/4 30 Section 12: NE1/4, N1/2NW1/4 31 Section 24: E1/2 E1/2, and Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
01 Section 25: E1/2 NE1/4, NW1/4 SE1/4, and Government Lots 1, 2, 02 3, 4, and 5 03 (7) Township 66 South, Range 79 East, Copper River Meridian 04 Section 6: SW1/4 SE1/4, E1/2 SW1/4, and Government Lots 1 and 05 2 06 Section 7: N1/2 NE1/4, NE1/4 NW1/4, and Government Lot 1 07 (8) Township 68 South, Range 76 East, Copper River Meridian 08 Section 10: S1/2SW1/4 09 Section 15: NW1/4, S1/2NE1/4, N1/2S1/2 10 Sections 31: E1/2, E1/2 W1/2, and Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 11 Section 32 12 Section 33: S1/2, NW1/4 13 Section 34: NW1/4SW1/4 14 (9) Township 68 South, Range 81 East, Copper River Meridian 15 Section 3: NW1/4, W1/2 SW1/4, and Government Lots 3 and 4 16 Section 4 17 Section 8: Government Lot 1 18 Section 9: E1/2, E1/2W1/2, and Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 19 Section 11: N1/2 20 (10) Township 69 South, Range 76 East, Copper River Meridian 21 Section 1: N1/2NW1/4, SW1/4NW1/4 22 Section 2: NE1/4, N1/2SE1/4, NE1/4 NW1/4 23 (11) Township 69 South, Range 79 East, Copper River Meridian 24 Section 23: E1/2SE1/4, NW1/4SE1/4 25 Section 24: W1/2SW1/4 26 (12) Township 69 South, Range 80 East, Copper River Meridian 27 Section 9: SE1/4NE1/4, E1/2 SE1/4, NW1/4 SE1/4, and 28 Government Lot 1 29 Section 10: SW1/4, S1/2NW1/4 30 Section 15: SE1/4 31 Section 21: SE1/4SE1/4
01 Section 22: NE1/4, W1/2SE1/4, S1/2SW1/4 02 Section 27: N1/2NW1/4 03 Section 28: NE1/4NE1/4 04 (13) Township 70 South, Range 77 East, Copper River Meridian 05 Section 23: E1/2NE1/4 06 Section 24: N1/2, N1/2SW1/4, N1/2SE1/4 07 (14) Township 70 South, Range 78 East, Copper River Meridian 08 Section 16: Government Lot 5 09 Section 18: W1/2, W1/2NE1/4, W1/2SE1/4 10 Section 19: That portion of Government Lot 1 within the 11 NW1/4NE1/4, W1/2NW1/4, NE1/4NW1/4, W1/2SW1/4 12 Section 20: S1/2 13 Section 21: That Portion of Government Lot 3 within the E 1/2; SW 14 1/4; and the Parcel described as: commencing at the NW 1/16 15 Corner of Section 21, the Point of Beginning; thence Northerly 16 along the West 1/16 Line to the Mean High Water Line of Sea Otter 17 Sound; thence Northerly and Easterly along the Mean High Water 18 Line of Sea Otter Sound to the intersection with the North-South 19 Centerline of Section 21; thence Southerly to the C 1/4 of Section 20 21; thence Westerly to the NW 1/16 Corner of Section 21 and the 21 Point of Beginning. 22 (15) Township 71 South, Range 81 East, Copper River Meridian 23 Section 13: NW1/4, NE1/4SW1/4, SE1/4, S1/2NE1/4, 24 NW1/4NE1/4 25 (16) Township 71 South, Range 82 East, Copper River Meridian 26 Section 18: S1/2SW1/4, NW1/4SW1/4 27 Section 19: N1/2NW1/4, SW1/4NW1/4, NW1/4 SW1/4 28 (17) Township 71 South, Range 84 East, Copper River Meridian 29 Section 14: W1/2 30 Section 15: E1/2, S1/2SW1/4, NE1/4SW1/4 31 Section 16: S1/2SE1/4
01 Section 21: N1/2NE1/4 02 Section 22: E1/2, NW1/4, N1/2SW1/4 03 Section 23: W1/2 04 Section 26: NW1/4 05 Section 27: N1/2NE1/4 06 (18) Township 71 South, Range 90 East, Copper River Meridian 07 Section 16: SW1/4 SW1/4, and Government Lots 1 and 2 08 Section 17: Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 09 Section 20: Government Lot 1 10 Section 21: SE1/4NW1/4, and Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 11 (19) Township 72 South, Range 84 East, Copper River Meridian 12 Section 1: SE1/4, E1/2SW1/4 13 Section 12: E1/2, E1/2NW1/4, E1/2SW1/4 14 Section 13: N1/2NE1/4, NE1/4NW1/4 15 (20) Township 75 South, Range 89 East, Copper River Meridian 16 Section 13: SW1/4NE1/4, W1/2SE1/4, SE1/4SE1/4, SW1/4, E1/2 17 NW1/4, SW1/4 NW1/4, and Government Lot 1 18 Section 14: SE1/4, Government Lot 1 19 Section 23: N1/2NE1/4 20 Section 24: N1/2N1/2 21 (21) Township 75 South, Range 90 East, Copper River Meridian 22 Tract A: Within Protracted Section 27, 28, 33, and 34, and the 23 portion in the W1/2 W1/2 of Protracted Section 35 24 (22) Township 76 South, Range 90 East, Copper River Meridian 25 Tract A: Within Protracted Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, and 17; the 26 Portion in the W1/2 W1/2 of Protracted Section 2; and the Portion in 27 the W1/2 NW1/4 and the SW1/4 of Protracted Section 11 28 (e) Nothing in this section prevents the City and Borough of Wrangell from 29 exercising its land selection rights under AS 29.65.040(d) to state land within its 30 boundaries. If new municipalities are incorporated before June 30, 2019, and lands 31 designated in (d) of this section are within their boundaries, those lands that were
01 classified as vacant, unappropriated, unreserved state land before establishment of the 02 Southeast State Forest shall be used to calculate the municipal entitlement acreage 03 under AS 29.65.030 but may not be selected. 04 * Sec. 2. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 05 read: 06 TRANSITIONS: REGULATIONS. The Department of Natural Resources may 07 immediately adopt regulations necessary to implement the change made by sec. 1 of this Act. 08 The regulations take effect under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act), but not before 09 July 1, 2009. 10 * Sec. 3. Section 2 of this Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c). 11 * Sec. 4. Except as provided in sec. 3 of this Act, this Act takes effective July 1, 2009.