Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 6.djvu/296

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110 STAT. 4118 PUBLIC LAW 104-333—NOV. 12, 1996 as their primary means of access to pursue caribou and other subsistence resources. (3) In a 1983 land exchange agreement, Unear easements were reserved by the Inupiat Eslamo people for use of allterrain vehicles across certain national park lands, mostly along stream and river banks. These linear easements proved unsatisfactory, because they provided inadequate access to subsistence resources while causing excessive environmental impact from concentrated use. (4) The National Park Service and the Nunamiut Corporation initiated discussions in 1985 to address concerns over the use of all-terrain vehicles on park and wilderness land. These discussions resulted in an agreement, originally executed in 1992 and thereafter amended in 1993 and 1994, among the National Park Service, Nunamiut Corporation, the City of Anaktuvuk Pass, and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. Full effectuation of this agreement, as amended, by its terms requires ratification by the Congress. (b) RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT.— (1) RATIFICATION.— (A) IN GENERAL. —The terms, conditions, procedures, covenants, reservations, and other provisions set forth in the document entitled "Donation, Exchsinge of Lands and Interests in Lands and Wilderness Redesignation Agreement Among Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Nunamiut Corporation, City of Anaktuvuk Pass and the United States of America" (hereinafter referred to in this section as "the Agreement"), executed by the parties on December 17, 1992, as amended, are hereby incorporated in this title, are ratified and confirmed, and set forth the obligations and commitments of the United States, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Nunamiut Corporation and the City of Anaktuvuk Pass, as a matter of Federal law, (B) LAND ACQUISITION. —Lands acquired by the United States pursuant to the Agreement shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") as part of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, subject to the laws and regulations applicable thereto. (2) MAPS.—The maps set forth as Exhibits CI, C2, and D through I to the Agreement depict the lands subject to the conveyances, retention of surface access rights, access easements and all-terrain vehicle easements. These Isinds are depicted in greater detail on a map entitled "Land Exchange Actions, Proposed Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange and Wilderness Redesignation, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve", Map No. 185/80,039, dated April 1994, and on file at the Alaska Regional Office of the National Park Service and the offices of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Fairbanks, Alaska. Written legal descriptions of these lands shall be prepared and made available in the above offices. In case of any discrepancies. Map No. 185/80,039 shall be controlling. (c) NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM WILDERNESS.— (1) GATES OF THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS. — (A) REDESIGNATION. —Section 701(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (94 Stat. 2371,