94 STAT. 2458
PUBLIC LAW 96-487—DEC. 2, 1980
continuous decisionmaking process involving the State and Federal Governments and the public; (b) the existing authorities to approve or disapprove applications for transportation and utility systems through public lands in Alaska are diverse, dissimilar, and, in some cases, absent; and (c) to minimize the adverse impacts of siting transportation and utility systems within units established or expanded by this Act and to insure the effectiveness of the decisionmaking process, a single comprehensive statutory authority for the approval or disapproval of applications for such systems must be provided in this Act. DEFINITIONS
16 USC 3162.
SEC. 1102. For purposes of this title— (1) The term "applicable law" means any law of general applicability (other than this title) under which any Federal department or agency has jurisdiction to grant any authorization (including but not limited to, any right-of-wa^, permit, license, lease, or certificate) without which a transportation or utility system cannot, in whole or in part, be established or operated. (2) The term "applicant" means any public or private person, including, but not limited to, any Federal department or agency. (3) The term "Federal agency" means any Federal department or agency that has any function or duty under applicable law. (4KA) The term "transportation or utility system" means any type of system described in subparagraph (B) if any portion of the route of the system will be within any conservation system unit, national recreation area, or national conservation area in the State (and the system is not one that the department or agency having jurisdiction over the unit or area is establishing incident to ite management of the unit or area). (B) The types of systems to which subparagraph (A) applies are as follows: (i) Canals, ditches, flumes, laterals, pipes, pipelines, tunnels, and other systems for the transportation of water. (ii) Pipelines and other systems for the transportation of liquids other than water, including oil, natural gas, synthetic liquid and gaseous fuels, and any refined product produced therefrom. (iii) Pipelines, slurry and emulsion systems and conveyor belts for the transportation of solid materials. (iv) Systems for the transmission and distribution of electric energy. (v) Systems for transmission or reception of radio, television, telephone, telegraph, and other electronic signals, and other means of communication. (vi) Improved rights-of-way for snow machines, air cushion vehicles, and other all-terrain vehicles. (vii) Roads, highways, railroads, tunnels, tramways, airports, landing strips, docks, and other systems of general transportation. Any system described in this subparagraph includes such related structures and facilities O)oth temporary and permanent) along the route of the system as may be minimally necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the system. Such related structures and facilities shall be described in the application required by section 1104, and shall be approved or disapproved in accordance with the procedures set forth in this title.
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