[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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