[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 11946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5840]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notification of Purchase and Conveyances of Lands and Wilderness
Designation in Katmai National Park and Preserve, AK
SUMMARY: This notice contains the legal descriptions of: (1) Lands and
interests in land acquired by the United States from the Heirs,
Devisees and/or Assigns of Palakia Melgenak in the Brooks River area,
Alaska; (2) lands conveyed by the United States to the Heirs, Devisees
and/or Assigns of Palakia Melgenak in the Savonoski River area, Alaska;
(3) lands designated and made part of the National Wilderness
Preservation System in the Geographic Harbor area, Alaska. All the
above lands lie within Katmai National Park and Preserve. The above
actions are authorized by section 135 of Public Law 105-277.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 135 of Public Law 105-277 authorizes
the purchase by the United States of certain lands and interests in
land, a certain conveyance of land by the United States, and inclusion
of certain lands in the National Wilderness Preservation System, and
directs the Secretary of the Interior to publish legal descriptions of
all such lands in the Federal Register. Such legal descriptions are
provided below.
(1) Lands or interests in land acquired by the United States from
the Heirs, Devisees and/or Assigns of Palakia Melgenak:
Lot (1) of Dependent Resurvey and Subdivision of U.S. Survey No.
7623, dated November 17, 1998, Third Judicial District, Kvichak
Recording District, State of Alaska. Containing 47.53 acres.
Lots Two (2) and Three (3) of Dependent Resurvey and Subdivision of
U.S. Survey No. 7623, dated November 17, 1998, Third Judicial District,
Kvichak Recording District, State of Alaska. (Conservation Easement).
Containing 20.43 acres.
(2) Land conveyed by the United States to the Heirs, Devisees and/
or Assigns of Palakia Melgenak:
U.S. Survey No. 12483, Third Judicial District, Kvichak Recording
District, State of Alaska. Containing 9.99 acres.
(3) Lands designated as wilderness as part of the National
Wilderness Preservation System and added to the Katmai Wilderness as
designated by section 701(4) of the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 1132 note):
A strip of land approximately one half mile long and 165 feet wide
lying within Section 1, Township 24 South, Range 33 West, Seward
Meridian, Alaska, the center line of which is the center of the unnamed
stream from its mouth at Geographic Harbor to the north line of said
Section 1. Said unnamed stream flows from the unnamed lake located in
Sections 25 and 36, Township 23 South, Range 33 West, Seward Meridian.
This strip of land contains approximately 10 acres.
Additionally, legal descriptions and maps have been made available
for public inspection at the National Park Service offices in
Anchorage, King Salmon and Kodiak, Alaska.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chief, Land Resources Program Center,
Alaska Region, National Park Service, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107,
Anchorage, Alaska 99503 (Phone: 907-257-2584).
Judith Gottlieb,
Acting Regional Director, Alaska Region.
[FR Doc. 99-5840 Filed 3-9-99; 8:45 am]
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