[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 230 (Thursday, November 30, 2006)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 69328-69358]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19968]



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Part IV





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36 CFR Part 13



Glacier Bay National Park, Vessel Management Plan Regulations; Final 
Rule

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

36 CFR Part 13

RIN 1024-AD25


Glacier Bay National Park, Vessel Management Plan Regulations

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Final rule and technical amendment.

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SUMMARY: This rule revises the special regulations for vessel quotas 
and operating requirements for cruise ships, tour vessels, charter 
vessels, private vessels, and passenger ferries within Glacier Bay 
National Park and Preserve. The rule implements the related final 
environmental impact statement completed in 2003 for vessel management 
in the park and preserve. This rule also makes nonsubstantive technical 
reorganizational changes for all of part 13. The part 13 
reorganization, while not included in the proposed rule, is a result of 
comments received regarding the complexity of the Glacier Bay 
regulations specifically, as well as comments received previously for 
various rulemaking documents concerning the organization of part 13 
generally.

DATES: This rule is effective on January 2, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Glacier Bay vessel management 
information: Tomie Patrick Lee, Superintendent, Glacier Bay National 
Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 140, Gustavus, Alaska 99826. Telephone: 
(907) 967-2230.
    Part 13 reorganization information: Vic Knox, Deputy Regional 
Director, National Park Service, 240 W. 5th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 
99501. Telephone: (907) 644-3501.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    This rule revises the special regulations for vessel quotas and 
operating requirements for cruise ships, tour vessels, charter vessels, 
private vessels, and passenger ferries within Glacier Bay National 
Park. The rule implements a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) 
completed in 2003 for vessel management in the Park. In 2001, the Ninth 
Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a 1996 increase in vessels 
into Glacier Bay violated the National Environmental Policy Act because 
an environmental impact statement (EIS) had not been prepared when the 
vessel entry quota was increased. The court prohibited vessel traffic 
above the pre-1996 levels, unless an EIS was prepared. The court 
decision went into effect in late summer 2001 resulting in a reduction 
in vessel traffic. Following the court decision, Congress enacted 
legislation (Sec. 130, Pub. L. 107-63, 115 Stat. 442, Nov. 5, 2001) 
that returned the vessel quotas to the 2000 calendar year level until 
changed based on an EIS that was directed to be completed by January 1, 
2004. The EIS was completed and announced in the Federal Register on 
October 10, 2003. The Record of Decision (ROD) for the EIS was signed 
on November 21, 2003. On March 3, 2006, a proposed rule was published 
in the Federal Register (71 FR 10940) to implement a portion of the 
ROD.
    Under these revised rules, daily vessel quotas remain unchanged, 
however, the regulations provide an administrative procedure for 
increases in seasonal quotas up to the daily maximum of two cruise 
ships. Although the final regulation provides for an increase in 
seasonal quotas of cruise ships, increased resource protection is also 
provided by extending the seasonal-use day quota season for cruise 
ships to include May and September, requiring the superintendent to 
carefully evaluate available studies before allowing any increase in 
cruise ship numbers, and revising operating requirements. Subject to 
the established daily quotas, seasonal limitations are eliminated for 
all other vessel categories. Pursuant to statute, a new vessel 
category, passenger ferry, is added with a daily quota of one. The 
various proposals regarding definitions and vessel operational 
requirements have also been adopted unless noted otherwise in the 
``Changes to the Final Rule'' section. As used within this document, 
the terms ``we,'' ``our,'' and ``us'' refer to the National Park 
Service.

Summary of Comments

    The proposed rule was published for public comment on March 3, 2006 
(71 FR 10940), with the initial comment period lasting until May 2, 
2006. The National Park Service received 28 timely written responses, 
plus two petitions, regarding various sections of the proposed rule. 
One petition was signed by 113 individuals and the other was signed by 
106 individuals. All of the written responses were either separate 
letters or e-mail messages. Of the 28 written responses, one was from 
the State of Alaska, two were from non-governmental organizations 
(including one consolidated response from 6 signatory groups), 5 were 
from small businesses, and 15 were submitted by individuals. Many 
proposed changes either received supporting comments or no comments. 
These sections are being adopted as proposed, unless noted otherwise 
below. The proposed sections that did receive comments of opposition or 
revision are discussed below.

General Comments

Proposed Quota/Permit System

    1. One commenter expressed support for the simplification of vessel 
management in Glacier Bay. The State of Alaska also commended the NPS 
on efforts to simplify the rules, but said the rule is still complex 
and recommended that the NPS further simplify the system.
    NPS Response: One of the goals of the NPS in this rulemaking was to 
simplify the vessel regulations for Glacier Bay to the extent 
practical, while protecting park resources and access by all user 
groups. The NPS will continue to evaluate other ways to further 
simplify vessel management.

NPS Administrative Use

    2. Several commenters suggested the NPS address and possibly limit 
administrative use. Other commenters recommended that NPS increase 
scientific research efforts.
    NPS Response: The majority of NPS use of Glacier Bay is for 
research purposes so the park can make better management decisions. 
There are other NPS administrative uses of the Bay; including emergency 
response, law enforcement, personnel transfers to cruise ships, and 
access by other State and Federal agencies with shared jurisdiction of 
the Bay. The NPS is aware that administrative use of vessels has an 
impact and the park carefully considers the need for such use against 
the effect on park resources.

Poor Communication Between the City of Gustavus and the NPS

    3. One commenter stated that there has been insufficient 
communication between the NPS and the City of Gustavus and that the 
City Council was not adequately informed about the changes in vessel 
management.
    NPS Response: The NPS is committed to cooperating with all 
interested parties, including the City of Gustavus, regarding 
management of park resources. The NPS has consistently communicated 
with the Mayor of Gustavus and the City Council since the city's 
formation on April 1, 2004. Additionally, there have been numerous 
public meetings in the Gustavus area over the past several years 
regarding changes to vessel management in Glacier Bay.

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Regulation of Private Vessels

    4. One individual commented that the NPS is over-regulating private 
vessels. This individual observed that all known collisions with whales 
have been caused by large commercial touring vessels.
    NPS Response: The NPS does not believe that the park can support 
unlimited private vessel traffic. The environmental analysis indicates 
that all types of vessel traffic impact marine resources as well as the 
visitor experience in Glacier Bay. All vessels used for non-
administrative purposes, including private vessels, are limited by 
number, route, and speed in particular parts of the Bay where whales 
are known to occur during the summer months. There have been two known 
whale fatalities that have occurred in the Bay due to vessel strikes. 
One was caused by a large commercial vessel and the other by a vessel 
of unknown size. In 2003, there also was a nonfatal collision between a 
small vessel and a whale in park waters.

Reduced Public Access

    5. One individual commented that the rules will reduce public 
access.
    NPS Response: In fact, public access to the Bay is increased by 
eliminating the private seasonal vessel quota, which allows an increase 
from 1,972 vessel use days currently to a potential for 2,300 private 
vessel use days per season. A portion of the daily private vessel quota 
would be reserved and made available on a short notice basis (48 hours 
before the date for which the permit would be issued) to accommodate 
visitors and local area residents. The Superintendent would have the 
ability to adjust the ratio between short notice and advanced notice 
permits from year to year to accommodate private vessel use changes 
over time. Additionally, the seasonal vessel quota for cruise ships may 
increase, which, when combined with having ships with large passenger 
capacities, will allow substantially larger numbers of the public to 
visit Glacier Bay. All national park areas must balance the 
congressional mandate to preserve park resources in a manner that will 
leave them unimpaired for future generations. The NPS believes the 
vessel management regulations achieve this balance.

Organization of Regulations

    6. The State of Alaska and other individuals commented that the 
regulatory structure is hard to follow.
    NPS Response: The NPS agrees that the organization of the 
regulations in Part 13, in particular Glacier Bay, needs improvement. 
As currently organized, the regulations are difficult for the public 
and government to use. Accordingly, the NPS has decided to reorganize 
the entire Part 13. This reorganization will establish several new 
subparts and redesignate all sections. It also redesignates numerous 
paragraphs as sections. These changes will make the rule much easier to 
use by introducing new headings and eliminating many levels of 
subdivisions, particularly in the Glacier Bay regulations. With the 
exception of vessel management in Glacier Bay, the substance of the 
Part 13 regulations and their corresponding relationship to 36 CFR 
parts 1-7 and 12 remain completely unaffected by these changes. The 
changes to vessel management in Glacier Bay are clearly identified in 
the proposed rule and changes to the proposed rule are delineated in 
the following section of this document titled ``Changes to the Final 
Rule.''

Specific Comments

Eliminating the Permit Exception

    7. We received 24 comments on the proposal to eliminate the permit 
exception for vessels based in Bartlett Cove. Many commenters requested 
that the NPS retain the permit exemption. Alternative suggestions 
included providing ``grandfather rights'' to people who have utilized 
this exception, suspend the implementation of the regulation until a 
new dock is built in Gustavus or until after the 2006 vessel permit 
season, enforce speed limits and require evasive action if whales are 
encountered, issue seasonal or right-of-way permits to those based in 
Bartlett Cove, allow only charter boats or commercial fishermen with 
lifetime access permits to use the exception, designate one private 
vessel permit as a ``transit'' permit that only one vessel could use at 
a time, or modify the regulatory definition of Glacier Bay or the 
boundaries of the Park to exclude Bartlett Cove. Other individuals 
commented that accessing Bartlett Cove was a right under the provisions 
of ANILCA section 1110(b), Access to Inholdings.
    NPS Response: The NPS appreciates how eliminating this exception 
would affect some local residents. The City of Gustavus is planning on 
upgrading facilities outside the park for mooring or basing vessels in 
the near future. The NPS believes this will provide a reasonable 
alternative for local residents who are not interested in recreating in 
the Bay. For that reason, as a five-year interim solution the NPS has 
decided to adopt one commenter's suggestion to designate one out of the 
25 private vessel permits each day as a ``transit'' permit. This 
``transit'' permit could be used by several different vessels provided 
that only one vessel is using the permit at a time. The ``transit'' 
permit could be used to directly exit Bartlett Cove and allow the 
vessel to return directly to Bartlett Cove. It would not allow travel 
into any other part of Glacier Bay. The superintendent will develop 
application procedures and operating conditions as part of the 
compendium. This provision would cease to be effective five years from 
the effective date of these regulations.
    The NPS does not believe ANILCA section 1110(b) applies in this 
circumstance. Gustavus is not within the boundaries of the park or 
effectively surrounded by the park, nor is access to or from Gustavus 
impeded by the park boundary.

Vessel Definitions

    8. One commenter suggested that the NPS adopt vessel definitions 
that conform to U.S. Coast Guard definitions.
    NPS Response: One of the changes in the charter vessel definition 
was established to conform to a new USCG category that includes vessels 
between 100 and 200 tons that are uninspected, which falls into the NPS 
charter vessel category. USCG definitions are based primarily on 
safety, which the NPS has found does not sufficiently account for 
visitor use patterns, concessions authorizations, and fee structures. 
For this reason, the NPS has adopted different vessel definitions.

Adopt a Separate Vessel Category

    9. One commenter suggested that the Glacier Bay Lodge vessel and a 
possible future kayak drop-off vessel be removed from the charter or 
tour categories.
    NPS Response: This would increase the number of vessels in Glacier 
Bay since these boats would not count toward the quotas for these two 
categories. The quotas, based on biological opinions, the FEIS, and 
ROD, have been determined to be the appropriate number of vessels to 
protect the environment while providing public access.

Safe Harbor Rule

    10. A few commenters expressed support for the safe harbor 
exception to the permit requirement. One individual requested 
clarification on how the safe harbor would be implemented.
    NPS Response: The safe harbor exception would allow vessels to 
operate in Glacier Bay without a permit if the superintendent 
determines on a case-by-case basis that there is a bona fide need for 
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apply to urgent weather, mechanical, or other safety-related 
emergencies; not situations where operating within Glacier Bay is a 
matter of convenience, such as provisioning or dropping off passengers 
to make a transportation connection on time.

Quotas

    11. We received several comments regarding the vessel quotas. The 
State of Alaska requested the NPS allow two cruise ships each day from 
June 1 to August 31 so the maximum of 184 cruise ships can visit 
Glacier Bay during this time. Three commenters recommended the NPS 
maintain existing quota levels. One commenter suggested that charter or 
bare boat rentals should be excluded from private vessel status when 
there are no clients on board.
    NPS Response: The purpose of the FEIS, biological opinions, and 
related studies was to determine the appropriate number of vessels that 
can visit Glacier Bay while protecting park resources and values. These 
quotas represent the NPS's primary mission to conserve park resources 
while providing for public enjoyment. The NPS believes the proposed 
quotas best achieve that mission.
    Vessel quotas are directly tied to research and available 
scientific information. The connection was made by several commenters. 
One commenter suggested utilizing a scientific advisory board regarding 
cruise ship quotas. The proposed regulation ensures that the annual 
cruise ship quota will be based in part on available scientific 
information. This would involve input from the Glacier Bay Science 
Advisory Board, which was established to provide the superintendent 
with the best available information of the effect of cruise ships on 
park resources.

Closing Beardslee Entrance and Adams Inlets

    12. Several commenters expressed support for the proposed closure 
of the Beardslee Entrance and Adams Inlet to cruise ships and tour 
vessels. Two commenters suggested also closing this area to charter 
vessels due to the potential size of vessels in this class. One 
individual suggested making a safe harbor exception to the closure.
    NPS Response: The NPS believes the proposed rule protects resources 
and public safety. The NPS will continue to monitor the effectiveness 
of the rule. Visitor safety is an important concern to the NPS and 
individual situations will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Passenger Ferry

    12. Two non-governmental organizations commented on the passenger 
ferry service. One organization expressed opposition to the ferry and 
the other organization suggested adopting size limits.
    NPS Response: Passenger ferry service is authorized by federal law 
and the proposed regulations appropriately implement the statutory 
provisions.

Speed Limits

    13. Two commenters objected to increasing speed limits in Glacier 
Bay whale waters. One of these commenters recommended adopting a 10-
knot speed limit due to potential acoustic impact on whales. Another 
commenter stated boats will not be able to come up on step with the 13-
knot speed limit.
    NPS Response: The NPS adopts a speed limit when there is a safety 
or resource protection need. The current state of scientific 
information does not differentiate between 13 knots or lower speeds as 
a means of reducing acoustic impact on whales. Published scientific 
data indicate that fatal whale strikes are more likely to occur at 
vessel speeds of 14 knots or higher. Consequently, allowing higher 
speeds in whale waters would be inappropriate. For this reason, the NPS 
believes that a 13-knot speed limit is the appropriate limit to protect 
park resources. However, based on NOAA guidelines or new scientific 
information, the superintendent may change the speed limit.

Whale Waters

    14. One commenter said that whales use Whidbey Passage regularly 
which would compel the superintendent to adopt vessel operating 
restrictions, effectively making this area ``de facto'' whale waters.
    NPS Response: Whales commonly use Whidbey Passage, but variability 
in their distribution usually requires whale waters to be designated 
seasonally, rather than using a permanent boundary. The NPS has also 
found that permanent whale waters outside the Lower Bay unnecessarily 
restrict vessel operators when whales are not using those areas. 
Experience has shown that permanent whale waters in areas where whale 
presence is inconsistent can detract from the effectiveness of the 
whale protection regulations. The NPS therefore believes that whales 
will be best protected by designating customized whale waters on a 
case-by-case basis, rather than relying on permanent boundaries that 
may not be valid each year.

Changes to the Final Rule

    Based on the preceding comments and responses, the NPS has made the 
following changes to the proposed rule language for vessel management 
at Glacier Bay National Park:
    Part 13 reorganization--Based on public comments that the rule is 
confusing due to the structure of the regulations, the NPS has decided 
to reorganize the entire Part 13. This reorganization will establish 
several new subparts and redesignate all sections. It also redesignates 
numerous paragraphs as sections. A derivation table showing the old and 
revised section numbers follows. These changes will make the rule much 
easier to use by introducing new headings and eliminating many levels 
of subdivisions, particularly in the Glacier Bay regulations. With the 
exception of vessel management in Glacier Bay, the substance of the 
Part 13 regulations and their corresponding relationship to 36 CFR 
Parts 1-7 and 12 remain completely unaffected by these changes.
    Part 13 Technical amendment--The NPS revised Part 13 in 2004 (69 FR 
70070, Dec. 2, 2004) and inadvertently removed the hearing provision 
for temporary closures and restrictions relating to the taking of fish 
and wildlife in the old Sec.  13.30(d) (now Sec.  13.50(d)). We are 
correcting this mistake.
    Section 13.1160(c)--Permits for vessels based in Bartlett Cove--As 
discussed in the Comments Section, the NPS decided to adopt a 
``transit'' permit provision for private vessels. This regulation would 
be in effect for five years from the effective date of this final rule, 
allowing time for vessel owners to plan for alternatives to basing 
their vessels in Bartlett Cove, and for the City of Gustavus to upgrade 
boat facilities outside the Park. The ``transit'' permit would count 
toward the private daily vessel quota of 25. This ``transit'' permit 
could be used by several different vessels in a day provided that only 
one vessel is using the permit at a time. The ``transit'' permit could 
be used only to directly exit Bartlett Cove and allow the vessel to 
return directly to Bartlett Cove. It would not allow travel into any 
other part of Glacier Bay. The superintendent will develop application 
procedures and operating conditions as part of the compendium. The 
superintendent is considering the following procedures and conditions 
for the 2007 compendium: (1) Making a percentage of the 25 private 
vessel permits available on an advance-notice basis and the remaining 
portion on a short-notice basis (48 hours before the date for which the 
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accommodate visitors and local area residents; (2) one of the short 
notice permits would be set aside as a ``transit'' permit available the 
previous day; (3) multiple parties could use the ``transit'' permit so 
long as only one party was using the permit to transit at any given 
time; (4) the ``transit'' permit could be reserved for a given block of 
time; (5) the ``transit'' permit may not be used for travel further up 
the Bay or to stop and engage in other activities such as fishing; and 
(6) if no party reserves the ``transit'' permit by a specified time on 
the available day of travel, the permit would go back in the pool of 
short-notice private vessel permits that could be used to go up the 
Bay. The NPS welcomes comments on these provisions, and other items in 
the Glacier Bay compendium. The 2007 proposed Glacier Bay compendium 
will be available online at www.nps.gov/glba and from the park directly 
by December 31, 2006. Comments can be made online through the park Web 
site or directly to the park (park address and phone number online at 
www.nps.gov/glba).
    Section 13.1176(a)(c)--Speed Restrictions--The NPS is increasing 
the speed limit to 13 knots from 10 knots as discussed in the proposed 
rule; however, the superintendent may modify the speed limit based on 
NOAA guidelines or new scientific information.
    Section 13.1102--Definitions--The reorganized Glacier Bay 
regulations will have one definitions section for all of Glacier Bay. 
In the old 13.65 regulations, the commercial fishing and resource 
protection subsections each had a definitions section. Creating a 
single definitions section for all of Glacier Bay results in a non-
substantive change to the definition of Glacier Bay with respect to 
commercial fishing. The old 13.65(a) commercial fishing definition of 
Glacier Bay was ``all marine waters within Glacier Bay National Park, 
including coves and inlets, north of an imaginary line drawn from Point 
Gustavus and Point Carolus.'' The definition for Glacier Bay set forth 
in the proposed rule will now apply throughout Glacier Bay and covers 
the same area; however, it defines the area using coordinates. This 
definition of Glacier Bay is: ``all waters inside a line drawn between 
Point Gustavus at 135[deg]54.927' W longitude; 58[deg]22.748' N 
latitude and Point Carolus at 136[deg]2.535' W longitude; 
58[deg]22.694' N latitude.''
    Section 13.1104--Coordinates--The NPS added a new regulation to 
clarify that all coordinates referenced in subpart M use Horizontal 
datum World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS 84).

                      Derivation Table for Part 13
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             New Section                         Derived From
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                  Subpart A--Administrative Provisions
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13.1                                  13.1
13.2                                  13.2
[removed]                             13.3 [reserved]
13.4                                  13.4
[removed]                             13.11-13.16 [reserved]
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                      Subpart B--General Provisions
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13.20                                 13.10
13.25                                 13.18(a)
13.26                                 13.18(b)
13.30                                 13.19
13.35                                 13.20
13.40                                 13.21
13.45                                 13.22
13.50                                 13.30
13.55                                 13.31
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                            Subpart C--Cabins
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13.100                                13.17(a)
13.102                                13.17(b)
13.104                                13.17(c)
13.108                                13.17(d)(1)
13.110                                13.17(d)(2)
13.112                                13.17(d)(3)
13.114                                13.17(d)(4)
13.116                                13.17(d)(5)
13.118                                13.17(d)(6)
13.120                                13.17(d)(7)
13.122                                13.17(d)(8)
13.124                                13.17(d)(9)
13.126                                13.17(e) introductory text
13.130                                13.17(e)(8)
13.136                                13.17(e)(1) introductory text
13.138                                13.17(e)(1)(i)
13.140                                13.17(e)(1)(ii)
13.142                                13.17(e)(1)(iii)
13.144                                13.17(e)(2)(i)
13.146                                13.17(e)(2)(ii)
13.148                                13.17(e)(2)(iii)
13.149                                13.17(e)(2)(iv)
13.150                                13.17(e)(3)
13.160                                13.17(e)(4)(i) and (ii)
13.161                                13.17(e)(4)(iii)
13.162                                13.17(e)(4)(iv)
13.164                                13.17(e)(4)(v)
13.166                                13.17(e)(4)(vi)
13.168                                13.17(e)(4)(vii)
13.170                                13.17(e)(5)(i)
13.172                                13.17(e)(5)(ii) and (iii)
13.176                                13.17(e)(6)
13.182                                13.17(e)(7)(i)
13.184                                13.17(e)(7)(ii)
13.186                                13.17(e)(7)(iii)
13.188                                13.17(e)(7)(iv)
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                   Subpart E--Special Visitor Services
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13.300                                13.80
13.305                                13.81
13.310                                13.82
13.315                                13.83
13.320                                13.84
13.325                                13.85
13.330                                13.86
13.335                                13.87
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                         Subpart F--Subsistence
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13.400                                13.40
13.410                                13.41
13.420                                13.42
13.430                                13.43
13.440                                13.44
13.450                                13.45
13.460                                13.46
13.470                                13.47
13.480                                13.48
13.485                                13.49
13.490                                13.50
13.495                                13.51
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                Subpart H--Alagnak Wild River [Reserved]
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           Subpart I--Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
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13.602                                13.60(a)
13.604                                13.60(b)
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             Subpart J--Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
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13.702                                13.61
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             Subpart K--Cape Krustenstern National Monument
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13.802                                13.62
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              Subpart L--Denali National Park and Preserve
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13.902                                13.63(a)
13.904                                13.63(b)
13.906                                13.63(c)
13.908                                13.63(e)
13.910                                13.63(f)
13.912                                13.63(g)
13.914                                13.63(j)
13.916                                13.63(k)
13.930                                13.63(d)(1)
13.932                                13.63(d)(2)
13.934                                13.63(d)(3)
13.936                                13.63(d)(4)
13.950                                13.63(h)(1)
13.952                                13.63(h)(2)
13.954                                13.63(h)(3)
13.956                                13.63(h)(4)
13.958                                13.63(h)(5)
13.960                                13.63(h)(6)
13.962                                13.63(h)(7)
13.970                                13.63(i) introductory text
13.972                                13.63(i)(1)
13.974                                13.63(i)(2)
13.976                                13.63(i)(3)
13.978                                13.63(i)(4)
13.980                                13.63(i)(5)
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        Subpart M--Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
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13.1002                               13.64(a)(1)
13.1004                               13.64(a)(2)
13.1006                               13.64(a)(3)
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            Subpart N--Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
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13.1102                               13.65(a)(1)
13.1102                               13.65(b)(1)
13.1110                               13.65(b)(5)
13.1112                               13.65(b)(6)
13.1114                               13.65(b)(7)
13.1116                               13.65(b)(8)
13.1120                               13.65(b)(3)(ix)(C)(1)(v)
13.1122                               13.65(b)(3)(ix)(C)(2)
13.1124                               13.65(b)(3)(ix)(C)(1)(i)-(iii)
13.1126                               13.65(b)(3)(ix)(C)(1)(iv)
13.1128                               13.65(b)(9)
13.1130                               13.65 (a)(2)
13.1132                               13.65 (a)(3)
13.1134                               13.65 (a)(4)
13.1136                               13.65 (a)(5)
13.1138                               13.65 (a)(6)
13.1140                               13.65 (a)(7)
13.1142                               13.65 (a)(8)
13.1144                               13.65 (a)(9)
13.1146                               13.65 (a)(10)
13.1150                               13.65(b)(2) introductory text
13.1152                               13.65(b)(2)(i)
13.1154                               13.65(b)(2)(ii)
13.1156                               13.65(b)(2)(iii)
13.1158                               13.65(b)(2)(iv)
13.1160                               13.65(b)(2)(v)
13.1170                               13.65(b)(3)(i)-(iii)
13.1172                               13.65(b)(3)(xi)
13.1174                               13.65(b)(3)(iv)
13.1176                               13.65(b)(3)(v)
13.1178                               13.65(b)(3)(vi)
13.1180                               13.65(b)(3)(vii)
13.1182                               13.65(b)(3)(viii)
13.1184                               13.65(b)(3)(ix) introductory text-
                                       (c) introductory text
13.1186                               13.65(b)(4)
13.1188                               13.65(b)(3)(x)
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              Subpart O--Katmai National Park and Preserve
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13.1202                               13.66(a)
13.1204                               13.66(b)
13.1206                               13.66(d)
13.1208                               13.66(e)
13.1220                               13.66(c) introductory text
13.1222                               13.66(c)(1)
13.1224                               13.66(c)(2)
13.1226                               13.66(c)(3)
13.1228                               13.66(c)(4)
13.1230                               13.66(c)(5)
13.1232                               13.66(c)(6)
13.1234                               13.66(c)(7)
13.1236                               13.66(c)(8)
13.1238                               13.66(c)(9)
13.1240                               13.66(c)(10)
13.1242                               13.66(c)(11)
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                  Subpart P--Kenai Fjords National Park
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13.1302                               13.67(a)
13.1304                               13.67(b)
13.1306                               13.67(c)
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         Subpart Q--Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
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13.1402                               13.68(a)
13.1404                               13.68(b)
13.1406                               13.68(c)
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                  Subpart R--Kobuk Valley National Park
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13.1502                               13.69(a)(1)
13.1504                               13.69(a)(2)
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            Subpart S--Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
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13.1602                               13.70
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                   Subpart T--Noatak National Preserve
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[reserved]                            13.71
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                Subpart U--Sitka National Historical Park
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13.1802                               13.72
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        Subpart V--Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
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13.1902                               13.73(a)(1)-(3)
13.1904                               13.73(b)
13.1906                               13.73(c)
13.1908                               13.73(d)
13.1910                               13.73(e)
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            Subpart W--Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
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[reserved]                            13.74
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Compliance with Other Laws

Regulatory Planning and Review (Executive Order 12866)

    This document is not a significant rule and has not been reviewed 
by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Order 12866.
    (1) This rule will not have an effect of $100 million or more on 
the economy. It will not adversely affect in a material way the 
economy, productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, public 
health or safety, or State, local, or tribal governments or 
communities. These conclusions are based on the analysis contained in 
the final environmental impact statement and a report prepared on the 
economic impact of this regulation, ``Economic Analysis of Vessel 
Management Alternatives in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve'', 
prepared for the NPS, Environmental Quality Division, by Research 
Triangle Institute, copies available from Glacier Bay National Park and 
Preserve, P.O. Box 140, Gustavus, Alaska 99826, (907) 697-2230.
    (2) This rule will not create a serious inconsistency or otherwise 
interfere with an action taken or planned by another agency. Actions 
taken under this rule will not interfere with other agencies or local 
government plans, policies, or controls. This is an agency specific 
rule.
    (3) This rule does not alter the budgetary effects of entitlements, 
grants, user fees, or loan programs or the rights or obligations of 
their recipients. It affects only the operations of various types of 
motor vessels on waters managed by the park. No grants or other forms 
of monetary supplement are involved.
    (4) This rule does not raise novel legal or policy issues.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Department of the Interior certifies that this document will 
not have a significant economic effect on a substantial number of small 
entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). 
It has been determined that there will be no incremental negative 
impacts on small entities because revenue losses are not expected. 
Possible future increases in vessel quota levels relative to the 
baseline are expected to lead to increases in business revenue. This 
certification is based on information contained in the report titled 
``Economic Analysis of Vessel Management Alternatives in Glacier Bay 
National Park and Preserve'' (RTI International, Health, Social, and 
Economic Research, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709), copies 
available from Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 140, 
Gustavus, Alaska 99826, (907) 697-2230.

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA)

    This rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C. 804(2), the Small 
Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. The Final rule:
    a. Does not have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or 
more. No incremental negative impacts on small businesses are expected 
and possible future increases in vessel quota levels will likely result 
in revenue growth.
    b. Will not cause a major increase in costs or prices for 
consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local government 
agencies, or geographic regions. The final rule will generally maintain 
existing patterns of vessel management in the park relative to costs or 
prices; and
    c. Does not have significant adverse effects on competition, 
employment,

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investment, productivity, innovation, or the ability of U.S.-based 
enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises. The various 
provisions of this rule do not apply differently to U.S.-based 
enterprises and foreign-based enterprises.

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995

    This final rule does not impose an unfunded mandate on State, local 
or tribal governments or the private sector of more than $100 million 
per year. The rule does not have a significant or unique effect on 
State, local, or tribal governments or the private sector. A statement 
containing the information required by the UMRA (2 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 
is not required.

Takings (Executive Order 12630)

    In accordance with Executive Order 12630, the rule does not have 
significant takings implications. A takings implications assessment is 
not required because no taking of personal property will occur as a 
result of this final rule.

Federalism (Executive Order 13132)

    In accordance with Executive Order 13132, the rule does not have 
sufficient federalism implications to warrant the preparation of a 
Federalism Assessment. The final rule is limited in effect to federal 
lands and waters managed by the NPS and will not have a substantial 
direct effect on state and local government in Alaska.

Civil Justice Reform (Executive Order 12988)

    In accordance with Executive Order 12988, the Office of the 
Solicitor has determined that this rule does not unduly burden the 
judicial system and meets the requirements of sections 3(a) and 3(b)(2) 
of the Order. This rule does not impose a new burden on the judicial 
system.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    This regulation requires an information collection from 10 or more 
parties, which must be submitted for OMB approval under the Paperwork 
Reduction Act. However, these are not new collection requirements and, 
therefore, no additional request to OMB has been prepared in 
conjunction with this rule. The information collection activities are 
necessary for the public to obtain benefits in the form of concession 
contracts and special use permits. Information collection associated 
with the award of concession contracts is covered under OMB control 
number 1024-0125; the information collection associated with the 
issuance of special use permits is covered under OMB control number 
1024-0026.

National Environmental Policy Act

    A Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and Final 
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) were completed and a Record of 
Decision (ROD) issued. The FEIS and ROD are available online at: http://www.nps.gov/glba or at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, as 
indicated above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

Government-to-Government Relationship With Tribes

    In accordance with Executive Order 13175 ``Consultation and 
Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments'' (65 FR 67249); the 
President's memorandum of April 29, 1994, ``Government to Government 
Relations with Native American Tribal Governments'' (59 FR 22951); the 
Department of the Interior-Alaska Policy on Government-to-Government 
Relations with Alaska Native Tribes dated January 18, 2001; Part 512 of 
the Departmental Manual, Chapter 2, ``Departmental Responsibilities for 
Indian Trust Resources''; and the park consultation agreement with 
tribal governments, the potential effects on federally-recognized 
Indian tribes and have been evaluated.
    During the past several years, the NPS has developed an effective 
working relationship with the Hoonah Indian Association and other 
regional Native organizations with interests in matters pertaining to 
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. All parties consulted concur 
that Glacier Bay and Dundas Bay lie within the traditional homelands of 
the Hoonah Tlingits, and that the Hoonah Indian Association, a 
federally recognized tribal government, is the representative 
government for Hoonah Tlingits. During this extended consultation the 
full range of issues relating to vessel quotas, operating requirements, 
and cultural resources has been identified and discussed at length. 
Extensive ethnographic research had been conducted to gather detailed 
information about cultural resources important to Hoonah Tlingits. 
Meetings were held with the tribal government and with community and 
tribal members.

Clarity of Rule

    Executive Order 12866 requires each agency to write regulations 
that are easy to understand. We invite your comments on how to make 
this rule easier to understand, including answers to questions such as 
the following: (1) Are the requirements in the rule clearly stated? (2) 
Does the rule contain technical language or jargon that interferes with 
its clarity? (3) Does the format of the rule (grouping and order of 
sections, use of headings, paragraphing, etc.) aid or reduce its 
clarity? (4) Would the rule be easier to read if it were divided into 
more (but shorter) sections? (A ``section'' appears in bold type and is 
preceded by the symbol ``Sec.  '' and a numbered heading; for example 
Sec.  7.XX .........) (5) Is the description of the rule in the 
``Supplementary Information'' section of the preamble helpful in 
understanding the proposed rule? What else could we do to make the rule 
easier to understand?
    Drafting Information: The principal contributors to this final rule 
were: Vic Knox, Deputy Regional Director; Tomie Lee, Superintendent, 
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve; Chuck Young, Chief Ranger, 
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve; Russ Wilson, Deputy 
Superintendent, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park; Jay Liggett, Jane 
Hendrick, Andee Hansen, Paul Hunter, Nancy Swanton, Alaska Regional 
Office; Jerry Case, Regulations Program Manager, WASO, and John 
Strylowski, Department of the Interior.

List of Subjects in 36 CFR Part 13

    Alaska, National Parks, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

0
In consideration of the foregoing, the National Park Service revises 36 
CFR part 13 to read as follows:

PART 13--NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM UNITS IN ALASKA

Subpart A--Administrative Provisions
Sec.
13.1 Definitions.
13.2 Applicability and scope.
13.4 Information collection.
Subpart B--General Provisions
13.20 Obstruction of airstrips.
13.25 Camping.
13.26 Picnicking.
13.30 Weapons, traps and nets.
13.35 Preservation of natural features.
13.40 Taking of fish and wildlife.
13.45 Unattended or abandoned property.
13.50 Closure procedures.
13.55 Permits.
Subpart C--Cabins

Administrative Provisions

13.100 Purpose and policy.
13.102 Applicability.
13.104 Definitions.

General Provisions

13.108 Permit application procedures.
13.110 Notice and comment on proposed permit.

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13.112 Permit revocation.
13.114 Appeal procedures.
13.116 Permittee's interest.
13.118 Cabin site compatibility.
13.120 Access.
13.122 Abandonment.
13.124 Emergency use.
13.126 Authorized use and occupancy.
13.130 New cabins and other structures otherwise authorized.

Cabin Use--Leases or Permits in Effect on December 2, 1980

13.136 Use and/or occupancy pursuant to a valid existing lease or 
permit.
13.138 Renewal.
13.140 Denial of renewal.
13.142 Transfer.

Cabin Use--Cabin Not Under Valid Lease or Permit as of December 1, 1978

13.144 Use and occupancy of a cabin prior to December 18, 1973.
13.146 Use and occupancy of a cabin between December 18, 1973 and 
December 1, 1978.
13.148 Permit application.
13.149 Permit application deadline.

Cabin Use for Commercial Fishing Activities

13.150 Use for authorized commercial fishing activities.

Cabin Use for Subsistence Purposes

13.160 Use of cabins for subsistence purposes.
13.161 Permit application.
13.162 Permit issuance.
13.164 Permit terms.
13.166 Temporary facilities.
13.168 Shared use.

Public Use Cabins

13.170 General public use cabins.
13.172 Management of public use cabins.
13.176 Cabins in wilderness areas.

Use of Temporary Facilities Related to Taking Fish and Wildlife

13.182 Temporary facilities.
13.184 Permit application.
13.186 Permit issuance.
13.188 Permit terms.
Subpart D [Reserved]
Subpart E--Special Visitor Services
13.300 Applicability and scope.
13.305 Definitions.
13.310 Historical operators.
13.315 Preferred operators.
13.320 Preference to Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated.
13.325 Most directly affected Native Corporation.
13.330 Appeal procedures.
13.335 Information collection.
Subpart F--Subsistence
13.400 Purpose and policy.
13.410 Applicability.
13.420 Definitions.
13.430 Determination of resident zones.
13.440 Subsistence permits for persons whose primary, permanent home 
is outside a resident zone.
13.450 Prohibition on aircraft use.
13.460 Use of snowmobiles, motorboats, dog teams, and other means of 
surface transportation traditionally employed by local rural 
residents engaged in subsistence uses.
13.470 Subsistence fishing.
13.480 Subsistence hunting and trapping.
13.485 Subsistence use of timber and plant material.
13.490 Closure to subsistence uses of fish and wildlife.
13.495 Application procedures for subsistence permits and aircraft 
exceptions.
Subpart G [Reserved]
Subpart H--Special Regulations--Alagnak Wild River [Reserved]
Subpart I--Special Regulations--Aniakchak National Monument and 
Preserve
13.602 Subsistence resident zone.
13.604 Wildlife distance conditions.
Subpart J--Special Regulations--Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
13.702 Off-Road Vehicles.
Subpart K--Special Regulations--Cape Krusenstern National Monument
13.802 Subsistence resident zone.
Subpart L--Special Regulations--Denali National Park and Preserve

General Provisions

13.902 Subsistence resident zone.
13.904 Camping.
13.906 Unattended or abandoned property.
13.908 Fishing limit of catch and in possession.
13.910 Mountain climbing.
13.912 Kantishna area summer season firearm safety zone.
13.914 Bicycle use.
13.916 Use of roller skates, skateboards, roller skis, in-line 
skates, and similar devices.

Motor Vehicle Permits

13.930 Do I need a permit to operate a motor vehicle on the Denali 
Park Road west of the Savage River?
13.932 How many permits will be issued each summer?
13.934 How will the superintendent manage the permit program?
13.936 What is prohibited?

Snowmachine (Snowmobile) Operations

13.950 What is the definition of a traditional activity for which 
section 1110(a) of ANILCA Permits snowmachines to be used in the 
Former Mt. McKinley National Park (Old Park) portion of Denali 
National Park and Preserve?
13.952 May a snowmachine be used in that portion of the park 
formerly known as Mt. McKinley National Park (Old Park)?
13.954 Where can I operate a snowmachine in Denali National Park and 
Preserve?
13.956 What types of snowmachines are allowed?
13.958 What other regulations apply to snowmachine use?
13.960 Who determines when there is adequate snow cover?
13.962 Does the Superintendent have other regulatory authority?

Frontcountry Developed Area (FDA)

13.970 Frontcountry Developed Area Definition.
13.972 Camping from April 15 through September 30.
13.974 Camping from October 1 through April 14.
13.976 Fire.
13.978 Pets.
13.980 Other FDA closures and restrictions.
Subpart M--Special Regulations--Gates of the Arctic National Park and 
Preserve
13.1002 Subsistence resident zone.
13.1004 Aircraft use.
13.1006 Customary trade.
Subpart N--Special Regulations--Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Administrative Provisions

13.1102 Definitions.
13.1104 Coordinates.

General Provisions

13.1110 Collection of interstadial wood.
13.1112 Collection of rocks and minerals.
13.1114 Collection of goat hair.
13.1116 Camping.

Bartlett Cove

13.1120 Bartlett Cove Developed Area closures and restrictions.
13.1122 Bartlett Cove Public Use Dock.
13.1124 Bartlett Cove Campground.
13.1126 Bicycles.
13.1128 Is a permit required to transport passengers between 
Bartlett Cove and Gustavus?

Commercial Fishing

13.1130 Is commercial fishing authorized in the marine waters of 
Glacier Bay National Park?
13.1132 What types of commercial fishing are authorized in Glacier 
Bay?
13.1134 Who is eligible for a Glacier Bay commercial fishing 
lifetime access permit?
13.1136 How can an individual apply for a commercial fishing 
lifetime access permit?
13.1138 Where should the documentation for a lifetime access permit 
be sent?
13.1140 Who determines eligibility?
13.1142 Can I appeal denial of my commercial fishing lifetime access 
permit application?
13.1144 How often will commercial fishing lifetime access permits be 
renewed?
13.1146 What other closures and restrictions apply to commercial 
fishermen and commercial fishing vessels?

Vessel Permits

13.1150 Is a permit required for a vessel in Glacier Bay?
13.1152 Private vessel permits and conditions.
13.1154 Commercial vessel permits and conditions.
13.1156 Exceptions from vessel permit requirement.

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13.1158 Prohibitions.
13.1160 Restrictions on vessel entry.

Vessel Operating Restrictions

13.1170 What are the rules for operating vessels?
13.1172 When general operating restrictions do not apply.
13.1174 Whale water restrictions.
13.1176 Speed restrictions.
13.1178 Closed waters, islands, and other areas.
13.1180 Closed waters, motor vessels, and seaplanes.
13.1182 Noise restrictions.
13.1184 Other restrictions on vessels.
13.1186 What are the emission standards for vessels?
13.1188 Where to get charts depicting closed waters.
Subpart O--Special Regulations--Katmai National Park and Preserve

General Provisions

13.1202 Fishing.
13.1204 Traditional red fish fishery.
13.1206 Wildlife distance conditions.
13.1208 Lake Camp.

Brooks Camp Developed Area

13.1220 Brooks Camp Developed Area definition.
13.1222 Camping.
13.1224 Visiting hours.
13.1226 Brooks Falls area.
13.1228 Food storage.
13.1230 Campfires.
13.1232 Sanitation.
13.1234 Pets.
13.1236 Bear orientation.
13.1238 Picnicking.
13.1240 Unattended property.
13.1242 BCDA closures and restrictions.
Subpart P--Special Regulations--Kenai Fjords National Park
13.1302 Subsistence.
13.1304 Exit Glacier.
13.1306 Public use cabins.
Subpart Q--Special Regulations--Klondike Gold Rush National Historical 
Park
13.1402 Camping.
13.1404 Preservation of natural, cultural, and archaeological 
resources.
13.1406 State lands.
Subpart R--Special Regulations--Kobuk Valley National Park
13.1502 Subsistence resident zone.
13.1504 Customary trade.
Subpart S--Special Regulations--Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
13.1602 Subsistence resident zone.
Subpart T--Special Regulations--Noatak National Preserve [Reserved]
Subpart U--Special Regulations--Sitka National Historical Park
13.1802 Prohibited activities.
Subpart V--Special Regulations--Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and 
Preserve
13.1902 Subsistence.
13.1904 Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark (KNHL).
13.1906 Headquarters/Visitor Center Developed Area (HQCDA).
13.1908 Slana Developed Area (SDA).
13.1910 KNHL and developed area closures and restrictions.
Subpart W--Special Regulations--Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve 
[Reserved]

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1, 3, 462(k), 3101 et seq.; Subpart M also 
issued under 16 U.S.C. 1a-2(h), 20, 1361, 1531, 3197; Pub. L. 105-
277, 112 Stat. 2681-259, October 21, 1998; Pub. L. 106-31, 113 Stat. 
72, May 21, 1999; Sec. 13.1202 also issued under Sec. 1035, Pub. L. 
104-333, 110 Stat. 4240, November 12, 1996.

Subpart A--Administrative Provisions


Sec.  13.1  Definitions.

    The following definitions shall apply to all regulations contained 
in this part:
    Adequate and feasible access means a reasonable method and route of 
pedestrian or vehicular transportation which is economically 
practicable for achieving the use or development desired by the 
applicant on his/her non-Federal land or occupancy interest, but does 
not necessarily mean the least costly alternative.
    Aircraft means a machine or device that is used or intended to be 
used to carry persons or objects in flight through the air, including, 
but not limited to airplanes, helicopters and gliders.
    Airstrip means visible, marked, or known aircraft landing areas in 
park areas. Airstrips may be marked with cones, lights, flagging, or 
windsocks, or be unmarked but recognizable because they have been 
cleared of vegetation or other obstructions.
    ANILCA means the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
(94 Stat. 2371; Pub. L. 96-487 (December 2, 1980)).
    Carry means to wear, bear or carry on or about the person and 
additionally, in the case of firearms, within or upon a device or 
animal used for transportation.
    Downed aircraft means an aircraft that as a result of mechanical 
failure or accident cannot take off.
    Facility means buildings, structures, park roads as defined by 
Sec.  1.4, parking lots, campgrounds, picnic areas, paved trails, and 
maintenance support yards.
    Firearm means any loaded or unloaded pistol, revolver, rifle, 
shotgun or other weapon which will or is designated to or may readily 
be converted to expel a projectile by the action of expanded gases, 
except that it does not include a pistol or rifle powered by compressed 
gas. The term ``firearm'' also includes irritant gas devices.
    Fish and wildlife means any member of the animal kingdom, including 
without limitation any mammal, fish, bird (including any migratory, 
nonmigratory or endangered bird for which protection is also afforded 
by treaty or other international agreement), amphibian, reptile, 
mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, or other invertebrate, and includes any 
part, produce, egg, or offspring thereof, or the dead body or part 
thereof.
    Fossil means any remains, impression, or trace of any animal or 
plant of past geological ages that has been preserved, by natural 
processes, in the earth's crust.
    Gemstone means a silica or igneous mineral including, but not 
limited to:
    (1) Geodes;
    (2) Petrified wood; and
    (3) Jade, agate, opal, garnet, or other mineral that when cut and 
polished is customarily used as jewelry or other ornament.
    Motorboat refers to a motorized vessel other than a personal 
watercraft.
    National Preserve shall include the following areas of the National 
Park System: Alagnak National Wild and Scenic River, Aniakchak National 
Preserve, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Denali National 
Preserve, Gates of the Arctic National Preserve, Glacier Bay National 
Preserve, Katmai National Preserve, Lake Clark National Preserve, 
Noatak National Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve, and 
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.
    Net means a seine, weir, net wire, fish trap, or other implement 
designed to entrap fish, except a landing net.
    Off-road vehicle means any motor vehicle designed for or capable of 
crosscountry travel on or immediately over land, water, sand, snow, 
ice, marsh, wetland or other natural terrain, except snowmachines or 
snowmobiles as defined in this chapter.
    Park areas means lands and waters administered by the National Park 
Service within the State of Alaska.
    Person means any individual, firm, corporation, society, 
association, partnership, or any private or public body.
    Possession means exercising dominion or control, with or without 
ownership, over weapons, traps, nets or other property.
    Public lands means lands situated in Alaska which are federally 
owned lands, except--
    (1) Land selections of the State of Alaska which have been 
tentatively approved or validly selected under the Alaska Statehood Act 
(72 Stat. 339) and lands which have been confirmed to,

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validly selected by, or granted to the Territory of Alaska or the State 
under any other provision of Federal law;
    (2) Land selections of a Native Corporation made under the Alaska 
Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688) which have not been 
conveyed to a Native Corporation, unless any such selection is 
determined to be invalid or is relinquished; and
    (3) Lands referred to in section 19(b) of the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act.
    Snowmachine or snowmobile means a self-propelled vehicle intended 
for off-road travel primarily on snow having a curb weight of not more 
than 1,000 pounds (450 kg), driven by a track or tracks in contact with 
the snow and steered by a ski or skis on contact with the snow.
    Take or taking as used with respect to fish and wildlife, means to 
pursue, hunt, shoot, trap, net, capture, collect, kill, harm, or 
attempt to engage in any such conduct.
    Temporary means a continuous period of time not to exceed 12 
months, except as specifically provided otherwise.
    Trap means a snare, trap, mesh, or other implement designed to 
entrap animals other than fish.
    Unload means there is no unexpended shell or cartridge in the 
chamber or magazine of a firearm; bows, crossbows and spearguns are 
stored in such a manner as to prevent their ready use; muzzle-loading 
weapons do not contain a powder charge; and any other implement capable 
of discharging a missile into the air or under the water does not 
contain a missile or similar device within the loading or discharging 
mechanism.
    Weapon means a firearm, compressed gas or spring powered pistol or 
rifle, bow and arrow, crossbow, blow gun, speargun, hand thrown spear, 
slingshot, explosive device, or any other implement designed to 
discharge missiles into the air or under the water.


Sec.  13.2  Applicability and scope.

    (a) The regulations contained in part 13 are prescribed for the 
proper use and management of park areas in Alaska and supplement the 
general regulations of this chapter. The general regulations contained 
in this chapter are applicable except as modified by part 13.
    (b) Subparts A through F contain regulations applicable to park 
areas. Such regulations amend in part the general regulations contained 
in this chapter. The regulations in subparts A through F govern use and 
management, including subsistence activities, within the park areas, 
except as modified by special park regulations in subparts H through V.
    (c) Subpart F contains regulations applicable to subsistence uses. 
Such regulations apply on federally owned lands and interests therein 
within park areas where subsistence is authorized. Subsistence uses are 
not allowed in Kenai Fjords National Park, Katmai National Park, 
Glacier Bay National Park, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, 
Sitka National Historical Park, the former Mt. McKinley National Park. 
The regulations in subpart F amend in part the general regulations 
contained in this chapter and the regulations contained in subparts A 
through C of part 13.
    (d) Subparts H through V contain special regulations for specific 
park areas. Such regulations amend in part the general regulations 
contained in this chapter and the regulations contained in subparts A 
through F of part 13.
    (e) Subpart E of this part 13 contains regulations applicable to 
authorized visitor service providers operating within certain park 
areas. The regulations in subpart E amend in part the general 
regulations contained in this chapter.
    (f) For purposes of this chapter, ``federally owned lands'' does 
not include those land interests:
    (1) Tentatively approved to the State of Alaska; or
    (2) Conveyed by an interim conveyance to a Native corporation.


Sec.  13.4  Information collection.

    The information collection requirements contained in subparts C and 
G, and Sec. Sec.  13.55, 13.440, 13.450, 13.485, and 13.495 are 
necessary for park Superintendents to issue concession contracts and 
special use permits, and have been approved by the Office of Management 
and Budget under 44 U.S.C. 3507. Information collections associated 
with the award of concession contracts are covered under OMB control 
number 1024-0125; the information collections associated with the 
issuance of special use permits are covered under OMB control number 
1024-0026.

Subpart B--General Provisions


Sec.  13.20  Obstruction of airstrips.

    (a) A person may not place an object on the surface of an airstrip 
that, because of its nature or location, might cause injury or damage 
to an aircraft or person riding in the aircraft.
    (b) A person may not dig a hole or make any kind of excavation, or 
drive a sled, tractor, truck, or any kind of vehicle upon an airstrip 
that might make ruts, or tracks, or add to an accumulation of tracks so 
as to endanger aircraft using the airstrip or persons riding in the 
aircraft.


Sec.  13.25  Camping.

    (a) Camping is authorized in park areas except where such use is 
prohibited or otherwise restricted by the Superintendent in accordance 
with this section, the provisions of Sec.  13.50, or as set forth for 
specific park areas in subparts H through V of this part.
    (b) Site time-limits. Camping is authorized for 14 consecutive days 
in one location. Camping is prohibited after 14 consecutive days in one 
location unless the camp is moved at least 2 miles or unless authorized 
by the Superintendent. A camp and associated equipment must be 
relocated immediately if determined by the Superintendent to be 
interfering with public access or other public interests or adversely 
impacting park resources.
    (c) Designated campgrounds. Except at designated campgrounds, 
camping is prohibited on NPS facilities. The Superintendent may 
establish restrictions, terms, and conditions for camping in designated 
campgrounds. Violating restrictions, terms, and conditions is 
prohibited.


Sec.  13.26  Picnicking.

    Picnicking is authorized in park areas except where such activity 
is prohibited or otherwise restricted by the Superintendent. The public 
will be notified by one or more of the following methods--
    (a) Signs posted at conspicuous locations, such as normal points of 
entry or reasonable intervals along the boundary of the affected park 
locale;
    (b) Maps available in the office of the Superintendent and other 
places convenient to the public;
    (c) Publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the 
affected area; or
    (d) Other appropriate methods, including park Web sites, brochures, 
maps, and handouts.


Sec.  13.30  Weapons, traps and nets.

    (a) Irritant chemical devices, including bear spray, may be 
carried, possessed, and used in accordance with applicable Federal and 
non-conflicting State laws, except when prohibited or restricted under 
Sec.  13.50.
    (b) Paragraphs (d) through (g) of this section apply to all park 
areas in Alaska except Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, 
Sitka National Historical Park and the former Mt. McKinley National 
Park, Glacier Bay National Monument and Katmai National Monument.

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    (c) Except as provided in this section and Sec.  2.4 of this 
chapter, the following are prohibited--
    (1) Possessing a weapon, trap, or net;
    (2) Carrying a weapon, trap, or net;
    (3) Using a weapon, trap, or net.
    (d) Firearms may be carried, possessed, and used within park areas 
in accordance with applicable State and Federal laws, except where such 
carrying, possession, or use is prohibited or otherwise restricted 
under Sec.  13.50.
    (e) Traps, bows and other implements (other than firearms) 
authorized by applicable State and Federal law for the taking of fish 
and wildlife may be carried, possessed, and used within park areas only 
during those times when the taking of fish and wildlife is authorized 
by applicable law or regulation.
    (f) In addition to the authorities provided in paragraphs (d) and 
(e) of this section, weapons (other than firearms), traps, and nets may 
be possessed within park areas provided such weapons, traps, or nets 
are within or upon a device or animal used for transportation and are 
unloaded and cased or otherwise packed in such a manner as to prevent 
their ready use while in a park area.
    (g) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, local rural 
residents who are authorized to engage in subsistence uses, including 
the taking of wildlife under Sec.  13.480, may use, possess, or carry 
traps, nets and other weapons in accordance with applicable State and 
Federal laws.


Sec.  13.35  Preservation of natural features.

    (a) This section applies to all park areas in Alaska except 
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Sitka National Historical 
Park, the former Mt. McKinley National Park, and the former Katmai 
National Monument.
    (b) Gathering or collecting natural products is prohibited except 
as allowed by this section, Sec.  2.1 of this chapter, or part 13, 
subparts F through V. For purposes of this paragraph, ``natural 
products'' includes living or dead fish and wildlife or parts or 
products thereof, plants or parts or products thereof, live or dead 
wood, fungi, seashells, rocks, and minerals.
    (c) Gathering or collecting, by hand and for personal use only, of 
the following renewable resources is permitted--
    (1) Natural plant food items, including fruits, berries and 
mushrooms, but not including threatened or endangered species;
    (2) Driftwood and uninhabited seashells;
    (3) Such plant materials and minerals as are essential to the 
conduct of traditional ceremonies by Native Americans; and
    (4) Dead wood on the ground for use as fuel for campfires within 
the park area.
    (d) The Superintendent may authorize, with or without conditions, 
the collection of dead standing wood in all or a portion of a park 
area. Collecting dead or downed wood in violation of terms and 
conditions is prohibited.
    (e) Surface collection, by hand (including hand-held gold pans) and 
for personal recreational use only, of rocks and minerals is permitted, 
with the following exceptions:
    (1) Collection of silver, platinum, gemstones and fossils is 
prohibited; and
    (2) Collection methods that may result in disturbance of the ground 
surface, such as the use of shovels, pickaxes, sluice boxes, and 
dredges, are prohibited.
    (f) The Superintendent may limit the size and quantity of the 
natural products that may be gathered or possessed.
    (1) Under conditions where it is found that significant adverse 
impact on park resources, wildlife populations, subsistence uses, or 
visitor enjoyment of resources will result, the Superintendent will 
prohibit the gathering or otherwise restrict the collecting of natural 
products.
    (2) The Superintendent will notify the public of portions of a park 
area in which closures or restrictions apply by:
    (i) Publishing a notice in at least one newspaper of general 
circulation in the State and providing a map available for public 
inspection in the office of the Superintendent; or
    (ii) Posting appropriate signs.
    (g) Subsistence. Nothing in this section shall apply to local rural 
residents authorized to take renewable resources.


Sec.  13.40  Taking of fish and wildlife.

    (a) [Reserved]
    (b) Fishing. Fishing is permitted in all park areas in accordance 
with applicable State and Federal law, and such laws are hereby adopted 
and made a part of these regulations to the extent they are not 
inconsistent with Sec.  2.3 of this chapter.
    (c) Commercial fishing. The exercise of valid commercial fishing 
rights or privileges obtained prior to December 2, 1980, pursuant to 
existing law in Cape Krusenstern National Monument, the Malaspina 
Glacier Forelands area of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve, and 
the Dry Bay area of Glacier Bay National Preserve, including the use of 
these park areas for existing campsites, cabins and other structures, 
motorized vehicles, and aircraft landings on existing airstrips, may 
continue provided that all such use is directly incident to the 
exercise of those rights or privileges.
    (1) Restrictions. The Superintendent may restrict or revoke the 
exercise of a valid commercial fishing right or privilege based upon 
specific findings, following public notice and an opportunity for 
response, that continuation of such use of a park area constitutes a 
direct threat to or significant impairment of the values and purposes 
for which the park area was established.
    (2) Expansion of uses. (i) A person holding a valid commercial 
fishing right or privilege may expand his or her level of use of a park 
area beyond the level of such use in 1979 only pursuant to the terms of 
a permit issued by the Superintendent.
    (ii) The Superintendent may deny a permit or otherwise restrict the 
expanded use of a park area directly incident to the exercise of such 
rights or privileges, if the Superintendent determines, after 
conducting a public hearing in the affected locality, that the expanded 
use constitutes either:
    (A) A significant expansion of the use of a park area beyond the 
level of such use during 1979 (taking into consideration the relative 
levels of use in the general vicinity, as well as the applicant's 
levels of use); or
    (B) A direct threat to, or significant impairment of, the values 
and purposes for which the park area was established.
    (d) Hunting and trapping. (1) Hunting and trapping are allowed in 
national preserves in accordance with applicable Federal and non-
conflicting State law and regulations.
    (2) Violating a provision of either Federal or non-conflicting 
State law or regulation is prohibited.
    (3) Engaging in trapping activities as the employee of another 
person is prohibited.
    (4) It shall be unlawful for a person having been airborne to use a 
firearm or any other weapon to take or assist in taking any species of 
bear, caribou, Sitka black-tailed deer, elk, coyote, arctic and red 
fox, mountain goat, moose, Dall sheep, lynx, bison, musk ox, wolf and 
wolverine until after 3 a.m. on the day following the day in which the 
flying occurred. This prohibition does not apply to flights on 
regularly scheduled commercial airlines between regularly maintained 
public airports.
    (5) Persons transporting wildlife through park areas must identify 
themselves and the location where the wildlife was taken when requested 
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an NPS employee or other authorized person.
    (e) Closures and restrictions. The Superintendent may prohibit or 
restrict the non-subsistence taking of fish or wildlife in accordance 
with the provisions of Sec.  13.50 of this chapter. Except in emergency 
conditions, such restrictions shall take effect only after the 
Superintendent has consulted with the appropriate State agency having 
responsibility over fishing, hunting, or trapping and representatives 
of affected users.


Sec.  13.45  Unattended or abandoned property.

    (a) This section applies to all park areas in Alaska except 
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and Sitka National 
Historical Park, or as further restricted for specific park areas in 
subparts H through V of this part.
    (b) Personal property. (1) Leaving personal property longer than 4 
months is prohibited. The Superintendent may authorize property to be 
left in place for more than 4 months.
    (2) Identification information is required for all personal 
property left in park areas. Identification information consists of the 
owner's name, home address, telephone number, date that the property 
was left, and the type of fuel if the property contains fuel. This 
information must be--
    (i) Labeled on the property; or
    (ii) Provided to the Superintendent.
    (3) All property must be stored in such a manner that wildlife is 
unable to access the contents. Storing property in a manner that 
wildlife can access contents is prohibited.
    (4) Leaving fuel in more than one location in a park area or 
leaving more than 30 gallons of fuel is prohibited unless authorized by 
the Superintendent.
    (5) Storing fuel within 100 feet of a water source, high water mark 
of a body of water, or mean high tide is prohibited unless stored in a 
spill proof overpack container or authorized by the Superintendent. 
Fuel must be contained in an undamaged and closed fuel container 
designed for fuel storage. Fueling from containers must occur in such a 
manner that any spillage would be prevented from coming into contact 
with water, soil, or vegetation. Failure to properly contain or prevent 
spillage is prohibited.
    (6) Leaving property unattended for longer than 24 hours on 
facilities is prohibited unless authorized by the Superintendent.
    (7) Property left in violation of this section is prohibited and 
subject to impoundment and, if abandoned, disposal or forfeiture.
    (c) The Superintendent may designate areas where personal property 
may not be left unattended for any time period, establish limits on the 
amount and type of personal property that may be left unattended, 
prescribe the manner in which personal property may be left unattended, 
or establish limits on the length of time personal property may be left 
unattended. Such designations and restrictions shall be published in at 
least one newspaper of general circulation within the State, posted at 
community post offices within the vicinity affected, made available for 
broadcast on local radio stations in a manner reasonably calculated to 
inform residents in the affected community, and designated on a map 
which shall be available for public inspection at the office of the 
Superintendent, or designated by the posting of appropriate signs, or 
both.
    (d) In the event unattended property interferes with the safe and 
orderly management of a park area or is causing damage to the resources 
of the area, it may be impounded by the Superintendent at any time.


Sec.  13.50  Closure procedures.

    (a) Authority. The Superintendent may close an area or restrict an 
activity on an emergency, temporary, or permanent basis.
    (b) Criteria. In determining whether to close an area or restrict 
an activity on an emergency basis, the Superintendent shall be guided 
by factors such as public health and safety, resource protection, 
protection of cultural or scientific values, subsistence uses, 
endangered or threatened species conservation, and other management 
considerations necessary to ensure that the activity or area is being 
managed in a manner compatible with the purposes for which the park 
area was established.
    (c) Emergency Closures. (1) Emergency closures or restrictions 
relating to the taking of fish and wildlife shall be accomplished by 
notice and hearing.
    (2) Other emergency closures shall become effective upon notice as 
prescribed in paragraph (f) of this section; and
    (3) No emergency closure or restriction shall extend for a period 
exceeding 30 days, nor may it be extended.
    (d) Temporary closures or restrictions. (1) Temporary closures or 
restrictions relating to the taking of fish and wildlife, shall not be 
effective prior to notice and hearing in the vicinity of the area(s) 
directly affected by such closures or restrictions, and other locations 
as appropriate;
    (2) Temporary closures shall be effective upon notice as prescribed 
in paragraph (f) of this section; and
    (3) Temporary closures or restrictions shall not extend for a 
period exceeding 12 months and may not be extended.
    (e) Permanent closures or restrictions. Permanent closures or 
restrictions shall be published as rulemaking in the Federal Register 
with a minimum public comment period of 60 days and shall be 
accompanied by public hearings in the area affected and other locations 
as appropriate.
    (f) Notice. Emergency, temporary, and permanent closures or 
restrictions shall be:
    (1) Published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in 
the State and in at least one local newspaper if available, posted at 
community post offices within the vicinity affected, made available for 
broadcast on local radio stations in a manner reasonably calculated to 
inform residents in the affected vicinity, and designated on a map 
which shall be available for public inspection at the office of the 
Superintendent and other places convenient to the public;
    (2) Designated by the posting of appropriate signs; or
    (3) Both.
    (g) Openings. In determining whether to open an area to public use 
or activity otherwise prohibited, the Superintendent shall provide 
notice in the Federal Register and shall, upon request, hold a hearing 
in the affected vicinity and other locations as appropriate prior to 
making a final determination.
    (h) Facility closures and restrictions. The Superintendent may 
close or restrict specific facilities for reasons of public health, 
safety, and protection of public property for the duration of the 
circumstance requiring the closure or restriction. Notice of facility 
closures and restrictions will be available for inspection at the park 
visitor center. Notice will also be posted near or within the facility, 
published in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected 
vicinity, or made available to the public by such other means as deemed 
appropriate by the Superintendent. Violating facilities closures or 
restrictions is prohibited.
    (i) Except as otherwise specifically permitted under the provisions 
of this part, entry into closed areas or failure to abide by 
restrictions established under this section is prohibited.

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Sec.  13.55  Permits.

    (a) Application. (1) Application for a permit required by any 
section of this part shall be submitted to the Superintendent having 
jurisdiction over the affected park area, or in the absence of the 
Superintendent, the Regional Director. If the applicant is unable or 
does not wish to submit the application in written form, the 
Superintendent shall provide the applicant an opportunity to present 
the application orally and shall keep a record of such oral 
application.
    (2) The Superintendent shall grant or deny the application in 
writing within 45 days. If this deadline cannot be met for good cause, 
the Superintendent shall so notify the applicant in writing. If the 
permit application is denied, the Superintendent shall specify in 
writing the reasons for the denial.
    (b) Denial and appeal procedures. (1) An applicant whose 
application for a permit, required pursuant to this part, has been 
denied by the Superintendent has the right to have the application 
reconsidered by the Regional Director by contacting him/her within 180 
days of the issuance of the denial. For purposes of reconsideration, 
the permit applicant shall present the following information:
    (i) Any statement or documentation, in addition to that included in 
the initial application, which demonstrates that the applicant 
satisfies the criteria set forth in the section under which the permit 
application is made.
    (ii) The basis for the permit applicant's disagreement with the 
Superintendent's findings and conclusions; and
    (iii) Whether or not the permit applicant requests an informal 
hearing before the Regional Director.
    (2) The Regional Director shall provide a hearing if requested by 
the applicant. After consideration of the written materials and oral 
hearing, if any, and within a reasonable period of time, the Regional 
Director shall affirm, reverse, or modify the denial of the 
Superintendent and shall set forth in writing the basis for the 
decision. A copy of the decision shall be forwarded promptly to the 
applicant and shall constitute final agency action.

Subpart C--Cabins

Administrative Provisions


Sec.  13.100  Purpose and policy.

    The policy of the National Park Service is to manage the use, 
occupancy and disposition of cabins and other structures in park areas 
in accordance with the language and intent of ANILCA, the National Park 
Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) and other applicable law. 
Except as Congress has directly and specifically provided to the 
contrary, the use, occupancy and disposition of cabins and other 
structures in park areas shall be managed in a manner that is 
compatible with the values and purposes for which the National Park 
System and these park areas have been established. In accordance with 
this policy, this subpart governs the following authorized uses of 
cabins and other structures in park areas:
    (a) Use and/or occupancy pursuant to a valid existing lease or 
permit;
    (b) Use and occupancy of a cabin not under valid existing lease or 
permit;
    (c) Use for authorized commercial fishing activities;
    (d) Use of cabins for subsistence purposes;
    (e) Public use cabins; and
    (f) Use of temporary facilities related to the taking of fish and 
wildlife.


Sec.  13.102  Applicability.

    Unless otherwise specified, this subpart applies to all park areas 
in Alaska except Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and Sitka 
National Historical Park.


Sec.  13.104  Definitions.

    The following definitions apply to this subpart:
    Cabin means a small, usually one-story dwelling of simple 
construction, completely enclosed, with a roof and walls which may have 
windows and door(s).
    Claimant means a person who has occupied and used a cabin or other 
structure as a primary, permanent residence for a substantial portion 
of the time, and who, when absent, has the intention of returning to it 
as his/her primary, permanent residence. Factors demonstrating a 
person's primary, permanent residence include, but are not limited to 
documentary evidence, e.g. the permanent address indicated on licenses 
issued by the State of Alaska and tax returns and the location where 
the person is registered to vote.
    Immediate family member means a claimant's spouse, or a 
grandparent, parent, brother, sister, child or adopted child of a 
claimant or of the claimant's spouse.
    Possessory interest means the partial or total ownership of a cabin 
or structure. ``Right of occupancy'' means a valid claim to use or 
reside in a cabin or other structure.
    Shelter means a structure designed to provide temporary relief from 
the elements and is characterized as a lean-to having one side open.
    Substantial portion of the time means at least 50 percent of the 
time since beginning occupancy and at least 4 (four) consecutive months 
of continuous occupancy in every calendar year after 1986.
    Temporary campsite means a natural, undeveloped area suitable for 
the purpose of overnight occupancy without modification.
    Temporary facility means a structure or other manmade improvement 
that can be readily and completely dismantled and/or removed from the 
site when the authorized use terminates. The term does not include a 
cabin.
    Tent platform means a structure, usually made of manufactured 
timber products, constructed to provide a solid, level floor for a 
tent, with or without partial walls not exceeding three feet in height 
above the floor, and having only the tent fabric, the ridge pole and 
its support poles extending higher than three feet above the floor.

General Provisions


Sec.  13.108  Permit application procedures.

    Except as otherwise specified in this subpart, the procedures set 
forth in Sec.  13.55(a) govern application for any permit authorized 
pursuant to this subpart.


Sec.  13.110  Notice and comment on proposed permit.

    Before a permit for the use and occupancy of a cabin or other 
structure is issued pursuant to this subpart, the Superintendent shall 
publish notice of the proposed issuance in the local media and provide 
a public comment period of at least sixty days, subject to the 
following exceptions: Prior notice and comment are not required for a 
permit authorizing use and occupancy for 14 days or less of a public 
use cabin or use and occupancy of a temporary facility for the taking 
of fish or wildlife for sport or subsistence purposes.


Sec.  13.112  Permit revocation.

    (a) The superintendent may revoke a permit or lease issued pursuant 
to this subpart when the superintendent determines that the use under 
the permit or lease is causing or may cause significant detriment to 
the principal purposes for which the park area was established. 
Provided, however, that if a permittee submits a written request for a 
hearing concerning the revocation, based on the cause listed above, of 
a permit or lease issued pursuant to Sec. Sec.  13.130, 13.136-13.149, 
or 13.160-168 of this subpart, the matter shall be assigned to an 
administrative law judge who, after notice and hearing and based on 
substantial evidence in the

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administrative record as a whole, shall render a recommended decision 
for the superintendent's review. The superintendent shall then accept, 
reject or modify the administrative law judge's recommended decision in 
whole or in part and issue a final decision in writing.
    (b) The superintendent may revoke or modify any permit or lease 
issued pursuant to this subpart when the permittee violates a term of 
the permit or lease.


Sec.  13.114  Appeal procedures.

    The procedures set forth in Sec.  13.55(b) govern appeals of a 
permit denial, a denial of a permit renewal, a permit revocation and a 
superintendent's final decision on a permit revocation issued pursuant 
to Sec.  13.112(a).


Sec.  13.116  Permittee's interest.

    (a) A permittee shall not accrue a compensable interest in a cabin 
or other structure in a park area unless specifically authorized by 
Federal statutory law.
    (b) A cabin or other structure in a park area may not be sold, 
bartered, exchanged, assigned or included as a portion of any sale or 
exchange of other property by a permittee unless specifically 
authorized by Federal statutory law.
    (c) The Superintendent shall determine the extent and nature of a 
permittee's possessory interest at the time a permit is issued or 
denied.


Sec.  13.118  Cabin site compatibility.

    The Superintendent shall establish permit conditions that require a 
permittee--
    (a) When constructing, maintaining or repairing a cabin or other 
structure authorized under this subpart, to use materials and methods 
that blend with and are compatible with the immediate and surrounding 
landscape; and
    (b) When terminating an activity that involves a structure 
authorized under this subpart, to dismantle and remove the structure 
and all personal property from the park area within a reasonable period 
of time and in a manner consistent with the protection of the park 
area.


Sec.  13.120  Access.

    (a) A permittee under this subpart who holds a permit for use and 
occupancy of a cabin or other structure located on public lands in a 
park area, not under valid existing lease or permit in effect on 
December 2, 1980, does not have a ``valid property or occupancy 
interest'' for purposes of ANILCA section 1110(b) and its implementing 
regulations.
    (b) When issuing a permit under this subpart, the Superintendent 
shall provide for reasonable access which is appropriate and consistent 
with the values and purposes for which the park area was established.
    (c) All impacts of the access to a cabin or other structure are 
deemed to be a part of, and shall be considered in any evaluation of, 
the effects of a use authorized by a permit issued under this subpart.


Sec.  13.122  Abandonment.

    (a) An existing cabin or other structure not under valid lease or 
permit, and its contents, are abandoned:
    (1) When no permit application has been received for its use and 
occupancy before October 20, 1987, one year after the effective date of 
this subpart; or
    (2) One year after a permit application for its use and occupancy 
has been denied or a permit for its use and occupancy has been revoked, 
denied or has expired.
    (b) A claimant or applicant whose application for a permit has been 
denied or whose permit has expired may remove all or a portion of a 
cabin or other structure and its contents from a park area, to the 
extent of his or her possessory interest and under conditions 
established by the Superintendent, until the date the cabin or 
structure is considered abandoned.
    (c) The contents of a cabin or other structure are considered 
abandoned when the cabin or other structure is considered abandoned.
    (d) A person whose permit for the use and occupancy of a cabin or 
other structure is revoked may remove his or her personal property from 
a park area under conditions established by the Superintendent until 
one year after the date of the permit's revocation.
    (e) The Superintendent shall dispose of abandoned property in 
accordance with Sec. Sec.  2.22 and 13.45 of this chapter. No property 
shall be removed from a cabin until such property has been declared 
abandoned or determined to constitute a direct threat to the safety of 
park visitors or area resources.


Sec.  13.124  Emergency use.

    During an emergency involving the safety of human life, a person 
may use any cabin designated by the Superintendent for official 
government business, general public use or shared subsistence use. The 
person shall report such use to the Superintendent as soon as is 
practicable.


Sec.  13.126  Authorized cabin use and occupancy.

    Use or occupancy of a cabin or structure in a park area is 
prohibited, except pursuant to the terms of a permit issued by the 
Superintendent under this subpart or as otherwise authorized by 
provisions of this chapter.


Sec.  13.130  New cabins and other structures otherwise authorized.

    The Superintendent may issue a permit for the construction, 
temporary use, occupancy, and maintenance of a cabin or other structure 
which is authorized by law but not governed by any other section in 
this subpart.

Cabin Use--Leases or Permits in Effect on December 2, 1980


Sec.  13.136  Use and/or occupancy pursuant to a valid existing lease 
or permit.

    A person who holds a valid lease or permit in effect on December 2, 
1980, for a cabin, homesite or similar structure not subject to the 
provisions of Sec. Sec.  13.146-13.149 of this subpart, on Federal 
lands in a park area, may continue the use authorized by that lease or 
permit, subject to the conditions in Sec. Sec.  13.138-13.142.


Sec.  13.138  Renewal.

    The Superintendent shall renew a valid lease or permit upon its 
expiration in accordance with the provisions of the original lease or 
permit, subject to any modifications or new conditions that the 
Superintendent finds necessary for the protection of the values and 
purposes of the park area.


Sec.  13.140  Denial of renewal.

    The Superintendent may deny the renewal or continuation of a valid 
lease or permit only after issuing specific findings, following notice 
and an opportunity for the leaseholder or permittee to respond, that 
renewal or continuation constitutes a direct threat to, or a 
significant impairment of, the purposes for which the park area was 
established.


Sec.  13.142  Transfer.

    Subject to any prohibitions or restrictions that apply to transfer 
in the existing lease or permit, the Superintendent may transfer a 
valid existing lease or permit to another person at the election or 
death of the original permittee or leaseholder, only if the 
Superintendent determines that:
    (a) The continued use is appropriate and compatible with the values 
and purposes of the park area;
    (b) The continued use is non-recreational in nature;
    (c) There is no demonstrated overriding need for public use; and
    (d) The continued use and occupancy will not adversely impact 
soils, vegetation, water or wildlife resources.

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Cabin Use--Cabin Not Under Valid Lease or Permit as of December 1, 1978


Sec.  13.144  Use and occupancy of a cabin prior to December 18, 1973.

    A cabin or other residential structure in existence and occupied by 
a claimant, both prior to December 18, 1973, with the claimant's 
occupancy continuing for a substantial portion of the time, may 
continue to be used and occupied by the claimant pursuant to a 
renewable, nontransferable five-year permit. Upon the request of the 
claimant or a successor who is an immediate family member and residing 
in the cabin or structure, the Superintendent shall renew this permit 
every five years until the death of the last immediate family member of 
the claimant who was residing with the claimant in the structure under 
permit at the time of issuance of the original permit.


Sec.  13.146  Use and occupancy of a cabin between December 18, 1973 
and December 1, 1978.

    A cabin or other residential structure in existence prior to 
December 1, 1978, with occupancy commenced by a claimant between 
December 18, 1973 and December 1, 1978, which a claimant has continued 
to occupy or use for a substantial portion of the time, may continue to 
be used and occupied by the claimant pursuant to a non-transferable 
permit. The Superintendent may issue and extend such permit for a term 
not to exceed December 1, 1999 for such reasons as are deemed by the 
Superintendent to be equitable and just. The Superintendent shall 
review the permit at least every two years and modify the permit as 
necessary to protect park resources and values.


Sec.  13.148  Permit application.

    In order to obtain, renew or extend a permit, a claimant shall 
submit a written application. In the case of an application to renew or 
extend a permit issued pursuant to Sec. Sec.  13.144 or 13.146, if no 
circumstance relating to the permittee's occupancy and use of the cabin 
or structure has changed in the interim, applicable material submitted 
by the permittee to satisfy the original application requirements is 
considered sufficient and need not be resubmitted. The following 
information is required to be included in a permit application:
    (a) Reasonable proof of possessory interest or right of occupancy 
in the cabin or structure, demonstrated by affidavit, bill of sale, or 
other documentation. In order for a claimant to qualify for a permit 
described in section 13.144, the claimant's possessory interest or 
right of occupancy must have been acquired prior to December 18, 1973. 
In order for a claimant to qualify for a permit described in section 
13.146, the claimant's possessory interest or right of occupancy must 
have been acquired prior to December 1, 1978;
    (b) A sketch or photograph that accurately depicts the cabin or 
structure;
    (c) A map that shows the geographic location of the cabin or 
structure;
    (d) The claimant's agreement to vacate and remove all personal 
property from the cabin or structure upon expiration of the permit;
    (e) The claimant's acknowledgement that he or she has no legal 
interest in the real property on which the cabin or structure is 
located;
    (f) Reasonable proof that the claimant has lived in the cabin or 
structure during a substantial portion of the time and continues to use 
the cabin or other structure as a primary, permanent residence; and
    (g) A list of all immediate family members residing with the 
claimant within the cabin or structure for which the application is 
being submitted. Such list need only include those immediate family 
members who will be eligible to continue to use and occupy the cabin or 
other structure upon the death or departure of the original claimant.


Sec.  13.149  Permit application deadline.

    The deadline for receipt of a permit application for the occupancy 
and use of an existing cabin or other structure described in Sec. Sec.  
13.144 or 13.146 is October 20, 1987. The Superintendent may extend 
this deadline for a reasonable period of time only when a permit 
applicant demonstrates that extraordinary circumstances prevented 
timely application.

Cabin Use for Commercial Fishing Activities


Sec.  13.150  Use for authorized commercial fishing activities.

    The use of a campsite, cabin or other structure in conjunction with 
commercial fishing activities authorized by section 205 of ANILCA in 
Cape Krusenstern National Monument, the Malaspina Glacier Forelands 
area of Wrangell-Saint Elias National Preserve, and the Dry Bay area of 
Glacier Bay National Preserve is authorized pursuant to the provisions 
of Sec.  13.40(c) of this chapter and the terms of a permit issued by 
the Superintendent.

Cabin Use for Subsistence Purposes


Sec.  13.160  Use of cabins for subsistence purposes.

    (a) A local rural resident who is an eligible subsistence user may 
use an existing cabin or other structure or temporary facility or 
construct a new cabin or other structure, including temporary 
facilities, in a portion of a park area where subsistence use is 
allowed, pursuant to the applicable provisions of subparts F through V 
of this part and the terms of a permit issued by the Superintendent. 
However, the Superintendent may designate existing cabins or other 
structures that may be shared by local rural residents for authorized 
subsistence uses without a permit.
    (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``local rural 
resident'', with respect to national parks, monuments, and preserve, is 
defined in Sec.  13.420 of this chapter.


Sec.  13.161  Permit application.

    In order to obtain or renew a permit, a person shall submit an 
application. In the case of an application to renew a permit issued 
pursuant to Sec.  13.160, if no circumstance relating to the 
permittee's occupancy and use of the cabin or structure has changed in 
the interim, applicable material submitted by the permittee to satisfy 
the original application requirements is considered sufficient and need 
not be resubmitted. The following information is required to be 
included in a permit application:
    (a) An explanation of the applicant's need for the cabin or 
structure;
    (b) A description of an applicant's past, present and anticipated 
future subsistence uses relevant to his or her need for the cabin or 
structure;
    (c) A blueprint, sketch or photograph of the cabin or structure;
    (d) A map that shows the geographic location of the cabin or 
structure; and
    (e) A description of the types of occupancy and schedule for use of 
the cabin or structure. All information may be provided orally except 
the cabin blueprint, sketch or photograph and the map.


Sec.  13.162  Permit issuance.

    (a) In making a decision on a permit application, the 
Superintendent shall consider whether the use by local rural residents 
of a cabin or other structure for subsistence purposes is customary and 
traditional in that park area and shall determine whether the use and 
occupancy of a new or existing cabin or structure is ``necessary to 
reasonably accommodate'' the applicant's subsistence uses. In making 
this determination, the Superintendent shall examine the applicant's 
particular circumstances, including but not limited to his or her past 
patterns of subsistence uses and his or her future subsistence use 
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subsistence use alternatives, the specific nature of the subsistence 
uses to be accommodated by the cabin or structure, the impacts of the 
cabin or structure on other local rural residents who depend on 
subsistence uses and the impacts of the proposed structure and 
activities on the values and purposes for which the park area was 
established.
    (b) The Superintendent may permit the construction of a new cabin 
or other new structure for subsistence purposes only if a tent or other 
temporary facility would not adequately and reasonably accommodate the 
applicant's subsistence uses without significant hardship and the use 
of no other type of cabin or other structure provided for in this 
subpart can adequately and reasonably accommodate the applicant's 
subsistence uses with a lesser impact on the values and purposes for 
which the park area was established.


Sec.  13.164  Permit terms.

    The Superintendent shall, among other conditions, establish terms 
of a permit that:
    (a) Allow for use and occupancy during the harvest or gathering of 
subsistence resources, at such times as may be reasonably necessary to 
prepare for a harvest season (e.g., opening or closing a cabin or 
structure at the beginning or end of a period of use), and at other 
times reasonably necessary to accommodate the permittee's specified 
subsistence uses;
    (b) Prohibit residential use in conjunction with subsistence 
activities; and
    (c) Limit the term of a permit to a period of five years or less.


Sec.  13.166  Temporary facilities.

    A temporary facility or structure directly and necessarily related 
to the taking of subsistence resources may be constructed and used by a 
qualified subsistence user without a permit so long as such use is for 
less than thirty days and the site is returned to a natural condition. 
The Superintendent may establish conditions and standards governing the 
use or construction of these temporary structures and facilities which 
shall be published annually in accordance with Sec.  1.7 of this 
chapter.


Sec.  13.168  Shared use.

    In any permit authorizing the construction of a cabin or other 
structure necessary to reasonably accommodate authorized subsistence 
uses, the Superintendent shall provide for shared use of the facility 
by the permittee and other local rural residents rather than for 
exclusive use by the permittee.

Public Use Cabins


Sec.  13.170  General public use cabins.

    The Superintendent may designate a cabin or other structure located 
outside of designated wilderness areas and not otherwise under permit 
under this subpart (or under permit for only a portion of the year) as 
a public use cabin. Such designated public use cabins are intended for 
short term recreational use and occupancy only.


Sec.  13.172  Management of public use cabins.

    The Superintendent may establish conditions and develop an 
allocation system in order to manage the use of designated public use 
cabins. The Superintendent shall mark all public use cabins with a sign 
and shall maintain a map showing their locations.


Sec.  13.176  Cabins in wilderness areas.

    The use and occupancy of a cabin or other structure located in a 
designated wilderness area are subject to the other applicable 
provisions of this subpart, and the following conditions:
    (a) A previously existing public use cabin located within 
wilderness designated by ANILCA may be allowed to remain and may be 
maintained or replaced subject to such restrictions as the 
Superintendent finds necessary to preserve the wilderness character of 
the area. As used in this section, the term ``previously existing 
public use cabin'' means a cabin or other structure which, on November 
30, 1978, was recognized and managed by a Federal land managing agency 
as a structure available for general public use.
    (b) Within a wilderness area designated by ANILCA, a new public use 
cabin or shelter may be constructed, maintained and used only if 
necessary for the protection of the public health and safety.
    (c) A cabin or other structure located in a designated wilderness 
area may not be designated, assigned or used for commercial purposes, 
except that designated public use cabins may be used in conjunction 
with commercial guided visitor services, but not to the exclusion of 
the general public.

Use of Temporary Facilities Related to Taking Fish and Wildlife


Sec.  13.182  Temporary facilities.

    In a national preserve where the taking of fish and wildlife is 
permitted, the construction, maintenance or use of a temporary 
campsite, tent platform, shelter or other temporary facility or 
equipment directly and necessarily related to such activities is 
prohibited except pursuant to the terms of a permit issued by the 
Superintendent. This requirement applies only to a temporary facility 
that will remain in place for a period longer than 14 days.


Sec.  13.184  Permit application.

    In order to obtain or renew a permit, a person shall submit an 
application. In the case of an application to renew a permit issued 
pursuant to this section and Sec.  13.186, if no circumstance relating 
to the permittee's occupancy and use of the structure has changed in 
the interim, applicable material submitted by the permittee to satisfy 
the original application requirements is considered sufficient and need 
not be resubmitted. The following information is required to be 
included in a permit application:
    (a) An explanation of the applicant's need for the temporary 
facility, including a description of the applicant's hunting and 
fishing activities relevant to his or her need for the facility;
    (b) A diagram, sketch or photograph of the temporary facility;
    (c) A map that shows the geographic location of the temporary 
facility; and
    (d) A description of both the past use (if any) and the desired use 
of the temporary facility, including a schedule for its projected use 
and removal. All information may be provided orally except the diagram, 
sketch or photograph of the facility and the map.


Sec.  13.186  Permit issuance.

    (a) In making a decision on a permit application, the 
Superintendent shall determine whether a temporary facility is 
``directly and necessarily related to'' the applicant's legitimate 
hunting and fishing activities by examining the applicant's particular 
circumstances, including, but not limited to his or her reasonable need 
for a temporary facility and any reasonable alternatives available that 
are consistent with the applicant's needs. The Superintendent shall 
also consider whether the proposed use would constitute an expansion of 
existing facilities or use and would be detrimental to the purposes for 
which the national preserve was established. If the Superintendent 
finds that the proposed use would either constitute an expansion above 
existing levels or be detrimental to the purposes of the preserve, he/
she shall deny the permit. The Superintendent may authorize the 
replacement or relocation within the national preserve of an existing 
temporary facility or structure.
    (b) The Superintendent shall deny an application for a proposed use 
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would exceed a ceiling or allocation established pursuant to the 
national preserve's General Management Plan.


Sec.  13.188  Permit terms.

    The Superintendent shall allow for use and occupancy of a temporary 
facility only to the extent that such facility is directly and 
necessarily related to the permittee's hunting and fishing activities, 
and shall provide that the temporary facility be used and maintained in 
a manner consistent with the protection of the values and purposes of 
the park area in which it is located. The Superintendent may also 
establish permit terms that:
    (a) Limit use to a specified period, not to exceed the applicable 
hunting or fishing season and such additional brief periods necessary 
to maintain the facility before and after the season;
    (b) Require the permittee to remove a temporary facility and all 
associated personal property from the park area upon termination of the 
permittee's hunting and fishing activities and related use of the 
facility or on a specific date;
    (c) Require reasonable seasonal relocation of a temporary facility 
in order to protect the values and purposes for which the park area was 
established;
    (d) Require that a temporary facility be used on a shared basis and 
not exclusively by the permittee; and
    (e) Limit the overall term of a permit to a reasonable period of 
time, not to exceed one year.

Subpart D--[Reserved]

Subpart E--Special Visitor Services


Sec.  13.300  Applicability and scope.

    (a) Except as otherwise provided for in this section, the 
regulations contained in this part apply to visitor services provided 
within all national park areas in Alaska.
    (b) The rights granted by this subpart to historical operators, 
preferred operators, and Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated are not 
exclusive. The Director may authorize other persons to provide visitor 
services on park lands. Nothing in this subpart shall require the 
Director to issue a visitor services authorization if not otherwise 
mandated by statute to do so. Nothing in this subpart shall authorize 
the Director to issue a visitor services authorization to a person who 
is not capable of carrying out its terms and conditions in a 
satisfactory manner.
    (c) This subpart does not apply to the guiding of sport hunting or 
sport fishing.


Sec.  13.305  Definitions.

    The following definitions apply to this subpart:
    Best offer means a responsive offer that best meets, as determined 
by the Director, the selection criteria contained in a competitive 
solicitation for a visitor services authorization.
    Controlling interest means, in the case of a corporation, an 
interest, beneficial or otherwise, of sufficient outstanding voting 
securities or capital of the business so as to permit the exercise of 
managerial authority over the actions and operations of the corporation 
or election of a majority of the board of directors of the corporation.
    Controlling interest in the case of a partnership, limited 
partnership, joint venture, or individual entrepreneurship, means a 
beneficial ownership of or interest in the entity or its capital so as 
to permit the exercise of managerial authority over the actions and 
operations of the entity. In other circumstances, controlling interest 
means any arrangement under which a third party has the ability to 
exercise management authority over the actions or operations of the 
business.
    Director means the Director of the National Park Service or an 
authorized representative.
    Historical operator, except as otherwise may be specified by a 
statute other than ANILCA, means the holder of a valid written 
authorization from the Director to provide visitor services within a 
park area that:
    (1) On or before January 1, 1979, was lawfully engaged in 
adequately providing such visitor services in the applicable park area;
    (2) Has continued, as further defined in Sec.  13.310, to lawfully 
provide that visitor service since January 1, 1979, without a change in 
controlling interest; and
    (3) Is otherwise determined by the Director to have a right to 
continue to provide such services or similar services pursuant to Sec.  
13.310.
    Local area means an area in Alaska within 100 miles of the location 
within the park area where any of the applicable visitor services is 
authorized to be provided.
    Local resident means:
    For individuals. Those individuals who have lived within the local 
area for 12 consecutive months before issuance of a solicitation of 
offers for a visitor services authorization for a park area and who 
maintain their primary, permanent residence and business within the 
local area and whenever absent from this primary, permanent residence, 
have the intention of returning to it. Factors demonstrating the 
location of an individual's primary, permanent residence and business 
may include, but are not limited to, the permanent address indicated on 
licenses issued by the State of Alaska, tax returns and voter 
registration.
    For corporations. A corporation in which the controlling interest 
is held by an individual or individuals who qualify as local 
resident(s) within the meaning of this subpart. For non-profit 
corporations a majority of the board members and a majority of the 
officers must qualify individually as local residents.
    Native Corporation means the same as defined in section 102(6) of 
ANILCA.
    Preferred operator means a Native Corporation that is determined 
under Sec.  13.325 to be ``most directly affected'' by the 
establishment or expansion of a park area by ANILCA, or a local 
resident as defined in this subpart.
    Responsive offer is one that is timely received and meets the terms 
and conditions of a solicitation for a visitor services authorization.
    Visitor services authorization is a written authorization from the 
Director to provide visitor services in a park area. Such authorization 
may be in the form of a concession permit, concession contract, or 
other document issued by the Director under National Park Service 
policies and procedures.


Sec.  13.310  Historical operators.

    (a) A historical operator will have a right to continue to provide 
visitor services in a park area under appropriate terms and conditions 
contained in a visitor services authorization issued by the Director as 
long as such services are determined by the Director to be consistent 
with the purposes for which the park area was established. A historical 
operator may not operate without such an authorization. The 
authorization will be for a fixed term. Failure to comply with the 
terms and conditions of the authorization will result in cancellation 
of the authorization and consequent loss of historical operator rights 
under this subpart.
    (b) Nothing in this subpart will prohibit the Director from 
permitting persons in addition to historical operators to provide 
visitor services in park areas at the Director's discretion as long as 
historical operators are permitted to conduct a scope and level of 
visitor services equal to those provided before January 1, 1979, under 
terms and conditions consistent with this subpart. A historical 
operator may be permitted by the Director under separate authority to 
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prior to January 1, 1979, but no historical operating rights will be 
obtained in such increase.
    (c) If a historical operator applies for a visitor services 
authorization in the form of a joint venture, the application will not 
be considered as validly made unless the historical operator 
demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the Director, that it has the 
controlling interest in the joint venture.
    (d) A historical operator may apply to the Director for an 
authorization or amended authorization to provide visitor services 
similar to those it provided before January 1, 1979. The Director will 
grant the request if such visitor services are determined by the 
Director to be:
    (1) Consistent with the protection of park resources and the 
purposes for which the park area was established;
    (2) Similar in kind and scope to the visitor services provided by 
the historical operator before January 1, 1979; and
    (3) Consistent with the legal rights of any other person.
    (e) When a historical operator's visitor services authorization 
expires, and if the applicable visitor services continue to be 
consistent with the purposes for which the park area was established as 
determined by the Director, the Director will offer to renew the 
authorization for a fixed term under such new terms and conditions as 
the Director determines are in the public interest.
    (f) If the Director determines that authorized visitor services 
must be curtailed or reduced in scope, level, or season to protect park 
resources, or for other purposes, the Director will require the 
historical operator to make such changes in visitor services. If more 
than one historical operator providing the same type of visitor 
services is required to have those services curtailed, the Director 
will establish a proportionate reduction of visitor services among all 
such historical operators, taking into account historical operating 
levels and other appropriate factors so as to achieve a fair 
curtailment of visitor services among the historical operators. If the 
level of visitor services must be so curtailed that only one historical 
operator feasibly may continue to provide the visitor services, the 
Director will select one historical operator to continue to provide the 
curtailed visitor services through a competitive selection process.
    (g) Any of the following will result in loss of historical operator 
status:
    (1) Revocation of an authorization for historic types and levels of 
visitor services for failure to comply with the terms and conditions of 
the authorization.
    (2) A historical operator's declination of a renewal of the 
authorization made pursuant to paragraph (d) of this section.
    (3) A change in the controlling interest of the historical operator 
through sale, assignment, devise, transfer, or by any other means, 
direct or indirect. A change in the controlling interest of a 
historical operator that results only in the acquisition of the 
controlling interest by an individual or individuals who were 
personally engaged in the visitor services activities of the historical 
operator before January 1, 1979, will not be deemed a change in the 
historical operator's controlling interest for the purposes of this 
subpart.
    (4) A historical operator's failure to provide the authorized 
services for more than 24 consecutive months.
    (h) The Director may authorize other persons to provide visitor 
services in a park area in addition to historical operators.


Sec.  13.315  Preferred operators.

    (a) In selecting persons to provide visitor services for a park 
area, the Director will, if the number of visitor services 
authorizations is to be limited, give a preference (subject to any 
rights of historical operators or CIRI under this subpart) to preferred 
operators determined qualified to provide such visitor services.
    (b) In such circumstances, the Director will publicly solicit 
competitive offers for persons to apply for a visitor services 
authorization, or the renewal of such an authorization, to provide such 
visitor services pursuant to 36 CFR part 51 and/or other National Park 
Service procedures. All offerors, including preferred operators, must 
submit a responsive offer to the solicitation in order to be considered 
for the authorization. If the best offer from a preferred operator is 
at least substantially equal to the best offer from a non-preferred 
operator, the preferred operator will receive authorization. If an 
offer from a person besides a preferred operator is determined to be 
the best offer (and no preferred operator submits a responsive offer 
that is substantially equal to it), the preferred operator who 
submitted the best offer from among the offers submitted by preferred 
operators will be given the opportunity, by amending its offer, to meet 
the terms and conditions of the best offer received. If the amended 
offer of such a preferred operator is considered by the Director as at 
least substantially equal to the best offer, the preferred operator 
will receive the visitor service authorization. If a preferred operator 
does not amend its offer to meet the terms and conditions of the best 
offer, the Director will issue the authorization to the person who 
submitted the best offer in response to the solicitation.
    (c) The Native Corporation(s) determined to be ``most directly 
affected''under this subpart and local residents have equal preference. 
The rights of preferred operators under this section take precedence 
over the right of preference that may be granted to existing 
satisfactory National Park Service concessioners pursuant to the 
Concessions Policy Act (16 U.S.C. 20) and its implementing regulations 
and procedures, but do not take precedence over the rights of 
historical operators or CIRI as described in this subpart.
    (d) An offer from a preferred operator under this subpart, if the 
offer is in the form of a joint venture, will not be considered valid 
unless it documents to the satisfaction of the Director that the 
preferred operator holds the controlling interest in the joint venture.
    (e) Nothing in this subpart will prohibit the Director from 
authorizing persons besides preferred operators to provide visitor 
services in park areas as long as the procedures described in this 
section have been followed. Preferred operators are not entitled by 
this section to provide all visitor services in a park area.
    (f) The preferences described in this section may not be sold, 
assigned, transferred or devised, directly or indirectly.


Sec.  13.320  Preference to Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated.

    (a) The Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated (CIRI), in cooperation with 
village corporations within the Cook Inlet region when appropriate, 
will have a right of first refusal to provide new visitor services 
within that portion of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve that is 
within the boundaries of the Cook Inlet region. In order to exercise 
this right of first refusal, the National Park Service will publicly 
solicit competitive offers for the visitor services authorization 
pursuant to 36 CFR part 51 or other applicable National Park Service 
procedures. CIRI must submit a responsive offer within 90 days of such 
solicitation. If CIRI makes such an offer and is determined by the 
Director to be capable of carrying out the terms and conditions of the 
visitor services authorization, it will receive the authorization. If 
it does not, the authorization may be awarded to another person 
pursuant to usual National Park Service policies and procedures if 
otherwise appropriate.

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    (b) The CIRI right of first refusal will have precedence over the 
rights of preferred operators. An offer from CIRI under this section, 
if the offer is in the form of a joint venture, will not be considered 
valid unless it demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Director that 
CIRI has a controlling interest in the joint venture.
    (c) The CIRI right of first refusal may not be sold, transferred, 
devised or assigned, directly or indirectly.


Sec.  13.325  Most directly affected Native Corporation.

    (a) Before the award of the first visitor service authorization in 
a park area to be made after the effective date of this subpart, the 
Director will provide an opportunity for any Native Corporation 
interested in providing visitor services within the applicable park 
area to submit an application to the superintendent to be determined 
the Native Corporation most directly affected by the establishment or 
expansion of the park area by or under the provisions of ANILCA. An 
application from an interested Native Corporation will include the 
following information:
    (1) Name, address, and phone number of the Native Corporation; date 
of incorporation; its articles of incorporation and structure;
    (2) Location of the corporation's population center or centers; and
    (3) An assessment of the socioeconomic impacts, including 
historical and traditional use and land-ownership patterns and their 
effects on the Native Corporation as a result of the expansion or 
establishment of the applicable park area by ANILCA.
    (4) Any additional information the Native Corporation considers 
relevant or the Director may reasonably require.
    (b) Upon receipt of all applications from interested Native 
Corporations, the Director will determine the ``most directly 
affected'' Native Corporation considering the following factors:
    (1) Distance and accessibility from the corporation's population 
center and/or business address to the applicable park area; and
    (2) Socioeconomic impacts, including historical and traditional use 
and landownership patterns, on Native Corporations and their effects as 
a result of the expansion or establishment of the applicable park area; 
and
    (3) Information provided by Native Corporations and other 
information considered relevant by the Director to the particular facts 
and circumstances of the effects of the establishment or expansion of 
the applicable park area.
    (c) In the event that more than one Native Corporation is 
determined to be equally affected within the meaning of this section, 
each such Native Corporation will be considered as a preferred operator 
under this subpart.
    (d) The Director's most directly affected Native Corporation 
determination applies to the award of all future visitor service 
authorizations for the applicable park area. However, a Native 
Corporation that did not apply for this determination in connection 
with an earlier visitor services authorization may apply for a 
determination that it is an equally affected Native Corporation for the 
applicable park area in connection with a later visitor services 
authorization. Such subsequent applications must contain the 
information required by paragraph (a) of this section, and must be made 
in a timely manner as described by the Director in the applicable 
solicitation document so as not to delay the consideration of offers 
for the visitor services authorization.


Sec.  13.330  Appeal procedures.

    An appeal of the denial of rights with respect to providing visitor 
services under this subpart may be made to the next higher level of 
authority. Such an appeal must be submitted in writing within 30 days 
of receipt of the denial. Appeals must set forth the facts and 
circumstances that the appellant believes support the appeal. The 
appellant may request an informal meeting to discuss the appeal with 
the National Park Service. After consideration of the materials 
submitted by the appellant and the National Park Service record of the 
matter, and meeting with the appellant if so requested, the Director 
will affirm, reverse, or modify the denial appealed and will set forth 
in writing the basis of the decision. A copy of the decision will be 
forwarded to the appellant and will constitute the final administrative 
decision in the matter. No person will be considered to have exhausted 
administrative remedies with respect to a denial of rights to provide 
visitor services under this subpart until a final administrative 
decision has been made pursuant to this section.


Sec.  13.335  Information collection.

    (a) The information collection requirements contained in this part 
have received emergency approval from the Office of Management and 
Budget under 44 U.S.C. 3507, et seq., for the basic contracting program 
under OMB clearance number 1024-0125. The information is being 
collected as part of the process of reviewing the procedures and 
programs of State and local governments participating in the national 
historic preservation program. The information will be used to evaluate 
those procedures and programs. The obligation to respond is required to 
obtain a benefit.
    (b) The public reporting burden for the collection of information 
is estimated to be 480 hours for large operations and 240 hours for 
small operations, including the time for reviewing instructions, 
searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data 
needed and completing and reviewing the collection of information, 
including suggestions for reducing the burden, to Information 
Collection Officer, National Park Service, 800 North Capitol Street, 
Washington, DC 20013; and the Office of Management and Budget, Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the 
Department of Interior (1024-0125), Washington, DC 20503.

Subpart F--Subsistence


Sec.  13.400  Purpose and policy.

    (a) Consistent with the management of fish and wildlife in 
accordance with recognized scientific principles and the purposes for 
which each park area was established, designated, or expanded by 
ANILCA, the purpose of this subpart is to provide the opportunity for 
local rural residents engaged in a subsistence way of life to do so 
pursuant to applicable State and Federal law.
    (b) Consistent with sound management principles, and the 
conservation of healthy populations of fish and wildlife, the 
utilization of park areas is to cause the least adverse impact possible 
on local rural residents who depend upon subsistence uses of the 
resources of the public lands in Alaska.
    (c) Nonwasteful subsistence uses of fish, wildlife and other 
renewable resources by local rural residents shall be the priority 
consumptive uses of such resources over any other consumptive uses 
permitted within park areas pursuant to applicable State and Federal 
law.
    (d) Whenever it is necessary to restrict the taking of a fish or 
wildlife population within a park area for subsistence uses in order to 
assure the continued viability of such population or to continue 
subsistence uses of such population, the population shall be allocated 
among local rural residents engaged in subsistence uses in accordance 
with a subsistence priority system based on the following criteria:

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    (1) Customary and direct dependence upon the resource as the 
mainstay of one's livelihood;
    (2) Local residency; and
    (3) Availability of alternative resources.
    (e) The State of Alaska is authorized to regulate the taking of 
fish and wildlife for subsistence uses within park areas to the extent 
such regulation is consistent with applicable Federal law, including 
but not limited to ANILCA.
    (f) Nothing in this subpart shall be construed as permitting a 
level of subsistence use of fish and wildlife within park areas to be 
inconsistent with the conservation of healthy populations, and within a 
national park or monument to be inconsistent with the conservation of 
natural and healthy populations, of fish and wildlife.


Sec.  13.410  Applicability.

    Subsistence uses by local rural residents are allowed pursuant to 
the regulations of this subpart in the following park areas:
    (a) In national preserves;
    (b) In Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Kobuk Valley National 
Park;
    (c) Where such uses are traditional (as may be further designated 
for each park or monument in the applicable special regulations of this 
part) in Aniakchak National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National 
Park, Lake Clark National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, and 
the Denali National Park addition.


Sec.  13.420  Definitions.

    Local rural resident. As used in this part with respect to national 
parks and monuments, the term ``local rural resident'' shall mean 
either of the following:
    (1) Any person who has his/her primary, permanent home within the 
resident zone as defined by this section, and whenever absent from this 
primary, permanent home, has the intention of returning to it. Factors 
demonstrating the location of a person's primary, permanent home may 
include, but are not limited to, the permanent address indicated on 
licenses issued by the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 
driver's license, and tax returns, and the location of registration to 
vote.
    (2) Any person authorized to engage in subsistence uses in a 
national park or monument by a subsistence permit issued pursuant to 
Sec.  13.440.
    Resident zone. As used in this part, the term ``resident zone'' 
shall mean the area within, and the communities and areas near, a 
national park or monument in which persons who have customarily and 
traditionally engaged in subsistence uses within the national park or 
monument permanently reside. The communities and areas near a national 
park or monument included as a part of its resident zone shall be 
determined pursuant to Sec.  13.430 and listed for each national park 
or monument in the applicable special regulations of this part.
    Subsistence uses. As used in this part, the term ``subsistence 
uses'' shall mean the customary and traditional uses by rural Alaska 
residents of wild, renewable resources for direct personal or family 
consumption as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, tools or transportation; 
for the making and selling of handicraft articles out of nonedible 
byproducts of fish and wildlife resources taken for personal or family 
consumption; for barter or sharing for personal or family consumption; 
and for customary trade. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term--
    (1) ``Family'' shall mean all persons related by blood, marriage, 
or adoption, or any person living within the household on a permanent 
basis; and
    (2) ``Barter'' shall mean the exchange of fish or wildlife or their 
parts taken for subsistence uses--
    (i) For other fish or game or their parts; or
    (ii) For other food or for nonedible items other than money if the 
exchange is of a limited and noncommercial nature; and
    (3) ``Customary trade'' shall be limited to the exchange of furs 
for cash (and such other activities as may be designated for a specific 
park area in the applicable special regulations of this part).


Sec.  13.430  Determination of resident zones.

    (a) A resident zone shall include--
    (1) The area within a national park or monument; and
    (2) The communities and areas near a national park or monument 
which contain significant concentrations of rural residents who, 
without using aircraft as a means of access for purposes of taking fish 
or wildlife for subsistence uses (except in extraordinary cases where 
no reasonable alternative existed), have customarily and traditionally 
engaged in subsistence uses within a national park or monument. For 
purposes of determining ``significant'' concentrations, family members 
shall also be included.
    (b) After notice and comment, including public hearing in the 
affected local vicinity, a community or area near a national park or 
monument may be--
    (1) Added to a resident zone; or
    (2) Deleted from a resident zone, when such community or area does 
or does not meet the criteria set forth in paragraph (a) of this 
section, as appropriate.
    (c) For purposes of this section, the term ``family'' shall mean 
all persons living within a rural resident's household on a permanent 
basis.


Sec.  13.440  Subsistence permits for persons whose primary, permanent 
home is outside a resident zone.

    (a) Any rural resident whose primary, permanent home is outside the 
boundaries of a resident zone of a national park or monument may apply 
to the appropriate Superintendent pursuant to the procedures set forth 
in Sec.  13.495 for a subsistence permit authorizing the permit 
applicant to engage in subsistence uses within the national park or 
monument. The Superintendent shall grant the permit if the permit 
applicant demonstrates that,
    (1) Without using aircraft as a means of access for purposes of 
taking fish and wildlife for subsistence uses, the applicant has (or is 
a member of a family which has) customarily and traditionally engaged 
in subsistence uses within a national park or monument; or
    (2) The applicant is a local rural resident within a resident zone 
for another national park or monument, or meets the requirements of 
paragraph (a)(1) of this section for another national park or monument, 
and there exists a pattern of subsistence uses (without use of an 
aircraft as a means of access for purposes of taking fish and wildlife 
for subsistence uses) between the national park or monument previously 
utilized by the permit applicant and the national park or monument for 
which the permit applicant seeks a subsistence permit.
    (b) In order to provide for subsistence uses pending application 
for and receipt of a subsistence permit, until August 1, 1981, any 
rural resident whose primary permanent home is outside the boundaries 
of a resident zone of a national park or monument and who meets the 
criteria for a subsistence permit set forth in paragraph (a) of this 
section may engage in subsistence uses in the national park or monument 
without a permit in accordance with applicable State and Federal law. 
Effective August 1, 1981, however, such rural resident must have a 
subsistence permit as required by paragraph (a) of this section in 
order to engage in subsistence uses in the national park or monument.
    (c) For purposes of this section, the term ``family'' shall mean 
all persons living within a rural resident's household on a permanent 
basis.

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Sec.  13.450  Prohibition of aircraft use.

    (a) Notwithstanding the provisions 43 CFR 36.11(f) the use of 
aircraft for access to or from lands and waters within a national park 
or monument for purposes of taking fish or wildlife for subsistence 
uses within the national park or monument is prohibited except as 
provided in this section.
    (b) Exceptions. (1) In extraordinary cases where no reasonable 
alternative exists, the Superintendent shall permit, pursuant to 
specified terms and conditions, a local rural resident of an ``exempted 
community'' to use aircraft for access to or from lands and water 
within a national park or monument for purposes of taking fish or 
wildlife for subsistence uses.
    (i) A community shall quality as an ``exempted community'' if, 
because of the location of the subsistence resources upon which it 
depends and the extraordinary difficulty of surface access to these 
subsistence resources, the local rural residents who permanently reside 
in the community have no reasonable alternative to aircraft use for 
access to these subsistence resources.
    (ii) A community which is determined, after notice and comment 
(including public hearing in the affected local vicinity), to meet the 
description of an ``exempted community'' set forth in paragraph (b)(1) 
of this section shall be included in the appropriate special 
regulations for each park and monument in this part.
    (iii) A community included as an ``exempted community'' in the 
special regulations of this part may be deleted therefrom upon a 
determination, after notice and comment (including public hearing in 
the affected local vicinity), that it does not meet the description of 
an ``exempted community'' set forth in paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section.
    (2) Any local rural resident aggrieved by the prohibition on 
aircraft use set forth in this section may apply for an exception to 
the prohibition pursuant to the procedures set forth in Sec.  13.495. 
In extraordinary cases where no reasonable alternative exists, the 
Superintendent may grant the exception upon a determination that the 
location of the subsistence resources depended upon and the difficulty 
of surface access to these resources, or other emergency situation, 
requires such relief.
    (c) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the use of aircraft for 
access to lands and waters within a national park or monument for 
purposes of engaging in any activity allowed by law other than the 
taking of fish and wildlife. Such activities include, but are not 
limited to, transporting supplies.


Sec.  13.460  Use of snowmobiles, motorboats, dog teams, and other 
means of surface transportation traditionally employed by local rural 
residents engaged in subsistence uses.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the use of 
snowmobiles, motorboats, dog teams, and other means of surface 
transportation traditionally employed by local rural residents engaged 
in subsistence uses is permitted within park areas except at those 
times and in those areas restricted or closed by the Superintendent.
    (b) The Superintendent may restrict or close a route or area to use 
of snowmobiles, motorboats, dog teams, or other means of surface 
transportation traditionally employed by local rural residents engaged 
in subsistence uses if the Superintendent determines that such use is 
causing or is likely to cause an adverse impact on public health and 
safety, resource protection, protection of historic or scientific 
values, subsistence uses, conservation of endangered or threatened 
species, or the purposes for which the park area was established.
    (c) No restrictions or closures shall be imposed without notice and 
a public hearing in the affected vicinity and other locations as 
appropriate. In the case of emergency situations, restrictions or 
closures shall not exceed sixty (60) days and shall not be extended 
unless the Superintendent establishes, after notice and public hearing 
in the affected vicinity and other locations as appropriate, that such 
extension is justified according to the factors set forth in paragraph 
(b) of this section. Notice of the proposed or emergency restrictions 
or closures and the reasons therefore shall be published in at least 
one newspaper of general circulation within the State and in at least 
one local newspaper if appropriate, and information about such proposed 
or emergency actions shall also be made available for broadcast on 
local radio stations in a manner reasonably calculated to inform local 
rural residents in the affected vicinity. All restrictions and closures 
shall be designated on a map which shall be available for public 
inspection at the office of the Superintendent of the affected park 
area and the post office or postal authority of every affected 
community within or near the park area, or by the posting of signs in 
the vicinity of the restrictions or closures, or both.
    (d) Motorboats, snowmobiles, dog teams, and other means of surface 
transportation traditionally employed by local rural residents engaged 
in subsistence uses shall be operated:
    (1) In compliance with applicable State and Federal law;
    (2) In such a manner as to prevent waste or damage to the park 
areas; and
    (3) In such a manner as to prevent the herding, harassment, hazing 
or driving of wildlife for hunting or other purposes.
    (e) At all times when not engaged in subsistence uses, local rural 
residents may use snowmobiles, motorboats, dog teams, and other means 
of surface transportation in accordance with 43 CFR 36.11(c), (d), (e), 
and (g).


Sec.  13.470  Subsistence fishing.

    Fish may be taken by local rural residents for subsistence uses in 
park areas where subsistence uses are allowed in compliance with 
applicable State and Federal law, including the provisions of 
Sec. Sec.  2.3 and 13.40 of this chapter: Provided, however, That local 
rural residents in park areas where subsistence uses are allowed may 
fish with a net, seine, trap, or spear where permitted by State law. To 
the extent consistent with the provisions of this chapter, applicable 
State laws and regulations governing the taking of fish which are now 
or will hereafter be in effect are hereby incorporated by reference as 
a part of these regulations.


Sec.  13.480  Subsistence hunting and trapping.

    Local rural residents may hunt and trap wildlife for subsistence 
uses in park areas where subsistence uses are allowed in compliance 
with applicable State and Federal law. To the extent consistent with 
the provisions of this chapter, applicable State laws and regulations 
governing the taking of wildlife which are now or will hereafter be in 
effect are hereby incorporated by reference as a part of these 
regulations.


Sec.  13.485  Subsistence use of timber and plant material.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the non-
commercial cutting of live standing timber by local rural residents for 
appropriate subsistence uses, such as firewood or house logs, may be 
permitted in park areas where subsistence uses are allowed as follows:
    (1) For live standing timber of diameter greater than three inches 
at ground height, the Superintendent may permit cutting in accordance 
with the specifications of a permit if such cutting is determined to be 
compatible with the purposes for which the park area was established;
    (2) For live standing timber of diameter less than three inches at 
ground height, cutting is permitted unless restricted by the 
Superintendent.

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    (b) The noncommerical gathering by local rural residents of fruits, 
berries, mushrooms, and other plant materials for subsistence uses, and 
the noncommerical gathering of dead or downed timber for firewood, 
shall be allowed without a permit in park areas where subsistence uses 
are allowed.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the 
Superintendent, after notice and public hearing in the affected 
vicinity and other locations as appropriate, may temporarily close all 
or any portion of a park area to subsistence uses of a particular plant 
population only if necessary for reasons of public safety, 
administration, or to assure the continued viability of such 
population. For the purposes of this section, the term ``temporarily'' 
shall mean only so long as reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes 
of the closure.
    (1) If the Superintendent determines that an emergency situation 
exists and that extraordinary measures must be taken for public safety 
or to assure the continued viability of a particular plant population, 
the Superintendent may immediately close all or any portion of a park 
area to the subsistence uses of such population. Such emergency closure 
shall be effective when made, shall be for a period not to exceed sixty 
(60) days, and may not subsequently be extended unless the 
Superintendent establishes, after notice and public hearing in the 
affected vicinity and other locations as appropriate, that such closure 
should be extended.
    (2) Notice of administrative actions taken pursuant to this 
section, and the reasons justifying such actions, shall be published in 
at least one newspaper of general circulation within the State and at 
least one local newspaper if available, and information about such 
actions and reasons also shall be made available for broadcast on local 
radio stations in a manner reasonably calculated to inform local rural 
residents in the affected vicinity. All closures shall be designated on 
a map which shall be available for public inspection at the office of 
the Superintendent of the affected park area and the post office or 
postal authority of every affected community within or near the park 
area, or by the posting of signs in the vicinity of the restrictions, 
or both.


Sec.  13.490  Closure to subsistence uses of fish and wildlife.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the 
Superintendent, after consultation with the State and adequate notice 
and public hearing in the affected vicinity and other locations as 
appropriate, may temporarily close all or any portion of a park area to 
subsistence uses of a particular fish or wildlife population only if 
necessary for reasons of public safety, administration, or to assure 
the continued viability of such population. For purposes of this 
section, the term ``temporarily'' shall mean only so long as reasonably 
necessary to achieve the purposes of the closure.
    (b) If the Superintendent determines that an emergency situation 
exists and that extraordinary measures must be taken for public safety 
or to assure the continued viability of a particular fish or wildlife 
population, the Superintendent may immediately close all or any portion 
of a park area to the subsistence uses of such population. Such 
emergency closure shall be effective when made, shall be for a period 
not to exceed sixty (60) days, and may not subsequently be extended 
unless the Superintendent establishes, after notice and public hearing 
in the affected vicinity and other locations as appropriate, that such 
closure should be extended.
    (c) Notice of administrative actions taken pursuant to this 
section, and the reasons justifying such actions, shall be published in 
at least one newspaper of general circulation within the State and in 
at least one local newspaper if available, and information about such 
actions and reasons also shall be made available for broadcast on local 
radio stations in a manner reasonably calculated to inform local rural 
residents in the affected vicinity. All closures shall be designated on 
a map which shall be available for public inspection at the office of 
the Superintendent of the affected park area and the post office or 
postal authority of every affected community within or near the park 
area, or by the posting of signs in the vicinity of the restrictions, 
or both.


Sec.  13.495  Application procedures for subsistence permits and 
aircraft exceptions.

    (a) Any person applying for the subsistence permit required by 
Sec.  13.440(a), or the exception to the prohibition on aircraft use 
provided by Sec.  13.450(b)(2), shall submit his/her application to the 
Superintendent of the appropriate national park or monument. If the 
applicant is unable or does not wish to submit the application in 
written form, the Superintendent shall provide the applicant an 
opportunity to present the application orally and shall keep a record 
of such oral application. Each application must include a statement 
which acknowledges that providing false information in support of the 
application is a violation of Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United 
States Code, and additional statements or documentation which 
demonstrates that the applicant satisfies the criteria set forth in 
Sec.  13.440(a) for a subsistence permit or Sec.  13.450(b)(2) for the 
aircraft exception, as appropriate. Except in extraordinary cases for 
good cause shown, the Superintendent shall decide whether to grant or 
deny the application in a timely manner not to exceed forty-five (45) 
days following the receipt of the completed application. Should the 
Superintendent deny the application, he/she shall include in the 
decision a statement of the reasons for the denial and shall promptly 
forward a copy to the applicant.
    (b) An applicant whose application has been denied by the 
Superintendent has the right to have his/her application reconsidered 
by the Alaska Regional Director by contacting the Regional Director 
within 180 days of the issuance of the denial. The Regional Director 
may extend the 180-day time limit to initiate a reconsideration for 
good cause shown by the applicant. For purposes of reconsideration, the 
applicant shall present the following information:
    (1) Any statement or documentation, in addition to that included in 
the initial application, which demonstrates that the applicant 
satisfies the criteria set forth in paragraph (a) of this section;
    (2) The basis for the applicant's disagreement with the 
Superintendent's findings and conclusions; and
    (3) Whether or not the applicant requests an informal hearing 
before the Regional Director.
    (c) The Regional Director shall provide a hearing if requested by 
the applicant. After consideration of the written materials and oral 
hearing, if any, and within a reasonable period of time, the Regional 
Director shall affirm, reverse, or modify the denial of the 
Superintendent and shall set forth in writing the basis for the 
decision. A copy of the decision shall be forwarded promptly to the 
applicant and shall constitute final agency action.

Subpart G [Reserved]

Subpart H--Special Regulations--Alagnak Wild River [Reserved]

Subpart I--Special Regulations--Aniakchak National Monument and 
Preserve


Sec.  13.602  Subsistence resident zone.

    The following communities and areas are included within the 
resident zone for Aniakchak National Monument:

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Chignik, Chignik Lagoon, Chignik Lake, Meshik, and Port Heiden.


Sec.  13.604  Wildlife distance conditions.

    (a) Approaching a bear or any large mammal within 50 yards is 
prohibited.
    (b) Continuing to occupy a position within 50 yards of a bear that 
is using a concentrated food source, including, but not limited to, 
animal carcasses, spawning salmon, and other feeding areas is 
prohibited.
    (c) The prohibitions do not apply to persons--
    (1) Engaged in a legal hunt;
    (2) On a designated bear viewing structure;
    (3) In compliance with a written protocol approved by the 
Superintendent; or
    (4) Who are otherwise directed by a park employee.

Subpart J--Special Regulations--Bering Land Bridge National 
Preserve


Sec.  13.702  Off-Road Vehicles.

    The use of off-road vehicles for purposes of reindeer grazing may 
be permitted in accordance with a permit issued by the Superintendent.

Subpart K--Special Regulations--Cape Krusenstern National Monument


Sec.  13.802  Subsistence resident zone.

    The following area is included within the resident zone for Cape 
Krusenstern National Monument: The NANA Region.

Subpart L--Special Regulations--Denali National Park and Preserve

General Provisions


Sec.  13.902  Subsistence resident zone.

    The following communities and areas are included within the 
resident zone for Denali National Park addition: Cantwell, Minchumina, 
Nikolai, and Telida.


Sec.  13.904  Camping.

    Camping is allowed in accordance with the backcountry management 
plan.


Sec.  13.906  Unattended or abandoned property.

    Leaving unattended and abandoned property along the road corridor, 
at Wonder Lake, and in the areas included in the backcountry management 
plan, is prohibited.


Sec.  13.908  Fishing limit of catch and in possession.

    The limit of catch per person per day shall be 10 fish but not to 
exceed 10 pounds and one fish, except that the limit of catch of lake 
trout (mackinaw) per person per day shall be two fish including those 
hooked and released. Possession of more than one day's limit of catch 
by one person at any one time is prohibited.


Sec.  13.910  Mountain climbing.

    Climbing on Mount McKinley or Mount Foraker without registering, on 
a form provided by the Superintendent, at least 60 days in advance of 
any climb is prohibited.


Sec.  13.912  Kantishna area summer season firearm safety zone.

    What is prohibited? No one may fire a gun during the summer season 
in or across the Kantishna area firearm safety zone, unless they are 
defending life or property.
    (a) The summer season begins on the Saturday of Memorial Day 
weekend and continues through the second Thursday following Labor Day 
or September 15, whichever comes first.
    (b) The Kantishna Area firearm safety zone includes: The Kantishna 
Airstrip; the State Omnibus Act Road right-of-way; and all public lands 
located within one mile of the Kantishna Airstrip or the State Omnibus 
Act Road right-of-way, from the former Mt. McKinley National Park 
boundary at mile 87.9 to the south end of the Kantishna Airstrip.


Sec.  13.914  Bicycle use.

    The use of a bicycle is prohibited--
    (a) On the Savage River Loop Trail; the Savage Cabin Trail; the 
Triple Lakes Trail; the McKinley Bar Trail; and the Eielson Area 
Trails; and
    (b) Within the Frontcountry Developed Area as defined by Sec.  
13.970 except on park roads, road shoulders, and in public parking 
areas, or on trails and areas designated for bicycle use by the 
Superintendent. A map of the designated trails and areas open to 
bicycle use is available for inspection at the park visitor center and 
on the park Web site.


Sec.  13.916  Use of roller skates, skateboards, roller skis, in-line 
skates, and similar devices.

    The use of roller skates, skateboards, roller skis, in-line skates, 
and similar devices is prohibited--
    (a) On the Savage River Loop Trail; the Savage Cabin Trail; the 
Triple Lakes Trail; the McKinley Bar Trail; and the Eielson Area 
Trails; and
    (b) Within the Frontcountry Developed Area as defined by Sec.  
13.970 except on trails and areas designated by the Superintendent. A 
map of the designated trails and areas is available for inspection at 
the park visitor center and on the park Web site.

Motor Vehicle Permits


Sec.  13.930  Do I need a permit to operate a motor vehicle on the 
Denali Park road west of the Savage River?

    Yes, you must obtain a permit from the superintendent to operate a 
motor vehicle on the restricted section of the Denali Park road. The 
restricted section begins at the west end of the Savage River Bridge 
(mile 14.8) and continues to the former Mt. McKinley National Park 
boundary north of Wonder Lake (mile 87.9).


Sec.  13.932  How many permits will be issued each summer?

    The superintendent is authorized, under this subpart, to issue no 
more than 10,512 motor vehicle permits each year for access to the 
restricted section of the road. The superintendent will issue the 
permits for the period that begins on the Saturday of Memorial Day 
weekend and continues through the second Thursday following Labor Day 
or September 15, whichever comes first. Each permit allows one vehicle 
one entry onto the restricted portion of the Park road.


Sec.  13.934  How will the superintendent manage the permit program?

    (a) The superintendent will apportion motor vehicle permits among 
authorized users following the procedures in Sec.  13.55. Authorized 
users are individuals, groups and governmental entities who are allowed 
by law or policy to use the restricted section of the road.
    (b) The superintendent will establish an annual date to evaluate 
permit requests and publish that date, along with the results of the 
annual apportionment, in the superintendent's compendium of rules and 
orders. The superintendent's compendium is available to the public upon 
request.
    (c) The superintendent will reevaluate the access requirements of 
any business that is sold, ceases to operate or that significantly 
changes the services currently offered to the public.


Sec.  13.936  What is prohibited?

    (a) No one may operate a motor vehicle on the restricted section of 
the Park road without a valid permit.
    (b) No one may use a motor home, camper or trailer to transport 
guests to a lodge or other business in Kantishna.
    (c) No one may transfer or accept transfer of a Denali Park road 
permit without the superintendent's approval.

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Snowmachine (Snowmobile) Operations


Sec.  13.950  What is the definition of a traditional activity for 
which Section 1110(a) of ANILCA permits snowmachines to be used in the 
former Mt. McKinley National Park (Old Park) portion of Denali National 
Park and Preserve?

    A traditional activity is an activity that generally and lawfully 
occurred in the Old Park contemporaneously with the enactment of 
ANILCA, and that was associated with the Old Park, or a discrete 
portion thereof, involving the consumptive use of one or more natural 
resources of the Old Park such as hunting, trapping, fishing, berry 
picking or similar activities. Recreational use of snowmachines was not 
a traditional activity. If a traditional activity generally occurred 
only in a particular area of the Old Park, it would be considered a 
traditional activity only in the area where it had previously occurred. 
In addition, a traditional activity must be a legally permissible 
activity in the Old Park.


Sec.  13.952  May a snowmachine be used in that portion of the park 
formerly known as Mt. McKinley National Park (Old Park)?

    No, based on the application of the definition of traditional 
activities within the park to the factual history of the Old Park, 
there are no traditional activities that occurred during periods of 
adequate snow cover within the Old Park; and, thus, Section 1110(a) of 
ANILCA does not authorize snowmachine access. Hunting and trapping were 
not and are not legally permitted activities in the Old Park at any 
time of the year. Sport fishing has not taken place in the Old Park 
during periods of adequate snow cover due to weather conditions that 
are adverse to sport fishing, and the limited fishery resources within 
the Old Park. During periods of adequate snow cover, berry picking is 
not feasible, and has not taken place in the Old Park. Under the 
definition, recreational use of snowmachines is not a traditional 
activity. There are no villages, homesites or other valid occupancies 
within the Old Park. Access by snowmachine through the Old Park in 
transit to homesites, villages and other valid occupancies was not 
lawful prior to the enactment of ANILCA and is available through routes 
outside the Old Park that have been historically used for that purpose. 
Therefore, the use of snowmachines is not authorized by section 1110(a) 
for such travel. Further, Congress did not authorize subsistence 
activities in the Old Park. In addition, the National Park Service has 
determined that the use of even a few snowmachines in the Old Park 
would be detrimental to the resource values of the area. Therefore, 
because no usage is authorized in the Old Park by section 1110(a) the 
Old Park remains closed to all snowmachine use in accordance with 36 
CFR 2.18.


Sec.  13.954  Where can I operate a snowmachine in Denali National Park 
and Preserve?

    You can use a snowmachine outside of the Old Park for traditional 
activities or travel to and from villages and homesites and other valid 
occupancies as authorized by 43 CFR 36.11(c), or when lawfully engaged 
in subsistence activities authorized by Sec.  13.460.


Sec.  13.956  What types of snowmachines are allowed?

    The types of snowmachines allowed are defined in Sec.  13.1 under 
``snowmachine or snowmobile''.


Sec.  13.958  What other regulations apply to snowmachine use?

    Snowmachine use is governed by regulations at Sec.  2.18(a) of this 
chapter, traffic safety, Sec.  2.18(b) of this chapter, state laws, and 
Sec.  2.18(d) and (e) of this chapter, prohibited activities; and 43 
CFR 36.11(a)(2) adequate snow cover, and 43 CFR 36.11(c) traditional 
activities.


Sec.  13.960  Who determines when there is adequate snow cover?

    The superintendent will determine when snow cover is adequate for 
snowmachine use. The superintendent will follow the procedures in 
Sec. Sec.  1.5 and 1.7 of this chapter to inform the public.


Sec.  13.962  Does the Superintendent have other regulatory authority?

    Nothing in this subpart shall limit the authority of the 
superintendent to restrict or limit uses of an area under other 
statutory authority.

Frontcountry Developed Area (FDA)


Sec.  13.970  Frontcountry Developed Area definition.

    For purposes of this subpart, the Frontcountry Developed Area (FDA) 
means all park areas within the portion of the park formerly known as 
Mt. McKinley National Park (Old Park) not designated as Wilderness by 
Congress. A map showing the FDA is available at the park visitor 
center.


Sec.  13.972  Camping from April 15 through September 30.

    (a) Camping is prohibited in the FDA except in designated 
campgrounds in accordance with the terms and conditions of a permit. 
Violation of permit terms and conditions is prohibited.
    (b) Camping in designated campgrounds in the FDA for more than a 
total of 14 days, either in a single period or combined periods, is 
prohibited.


Sec.  13.974  Camping from October 1 through April 14.

    (a) Camping is prohibited in the FDA except in designated 
campgrounds and the designated area where the park road is closed to 
motor vehicle use. A map showing the designated area is available at 
the park visitor center and on the park Web site.
    (b) Camping in the FDA without a permit is prohibited. Violation of 
permit terms and conditions is prohibited.
    (c) Camping in the FDA for more than a total of 30 days, either in 
a single period or combined periods, is prohibited.


Sec.  13.976  Fire.

    Lighting or maintaining a fire is prohibited in the FDA except--
    (a) In established receptacles within designated campgrounds;
    (b) From October 1 through April 14 in that portion of the FDA 
where the park road is closed to motor vehicle use; and
    (c) Under conditions that may be established by the Superintendent.


Sec.  13.978  Pets.

    Possessing a pet is prohibited--
    (a) In the FDA, except in public parking areas, on or immediately 
adjacent to park roads, or in designated campgrounds;
    (b) Within 150 feet of the park sled dog kennels; and
    (c) Within 150 feet of the park water system intake facilities.


Sec.  13.980  Other FDA closures and restrictions.

    The Superintendent may prohibit or otherwise restrict activities in 
the FDA to protect public health, safety, or park resources. 
Information on FDA closures and restrictions will be available for 
inspection at the park visitor center and on the park Web site. 
Violating FDA closures or restrictions is prohibited.

Subpart M--Special Regulations--Gates of the Arctic National Park 
and Preserve


Sec.  13.1002  Subsistence resident zone.

    The following communities and areas are included within the 
resident zone for Gates of the Arctic National Park: Alatna, Allakaket, 
Ambler, Anaktuvuk Pass, Bettles/Evansville, Hughes, Kobuk, Nuiqsut, 
Shungnak, and Wiseman.

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Sec.  13.1004  Aircraft use.

    In extraordinary cases where no reasonable alternative exists, 
local rural residents who permanently reside in the following exempted 
community(ies) may use aircraft for access to lands and waters within 
the park for subsistence purposes in accordance with a permit issued by 
the Superintendent: Anaktuvuk Pass.


Sec.  13.1006  Customary trade.

    In the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve unit which contains 
the Kobuk River and its tributaries, ``customary trade'' shall 
include--in addition to the exchange of furs for cash--the selling of 
handicraft articles made from plant material taken by local rural 
residents of the park area.

Subpart N--Special Regulations--Glacier Bay National Park and 
Preserve

Administrative Provisions


Sec.  13.1102  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart:
    Bartlett Cove Developed Area means all NPS-administered lands and 
waters within 1 mile of any Bartlett Cove facility. A map showing the 
Bartlett Cove Developed Area is available at the park visitor center.
    Charter vessel means any motor vessel under 100 tons gross (U.S. 
System) or 2,000 tons gross (International Convention System) engaged 
in transport of passengers for hire and certified to carry no more than 
12 passengers overnight and no more than 49 passengers for daytime use. 
Charter vessels also include any uninspected motor vessel measuring 
less than 200 tons gross (U.S. Tonnage ``Simplified Measurement 
System'') and not more than 24 meters (79 feet) in length engaged in 
transport of passengers for hire.
    Commercial fishing means conducting fishing activities under the 
appropriate commercial fishing permits and licenses as required and 
defined by the State of Alaska.
    Commercial fishing vessel means any motor vessel conducting fishing 
activities under the appropriate commercial fishing licenses as 
authorized under this subpart.
    Cruise ship means any motor vessel of at least 100 tons gross (U.S. 
System) or 2,000 tons gross (International Convention System) 
certificated to carry more than 12 passengers for hire.
    Daily vessel quota means the maximum number of vessels allowed, by 
vessel category, on any one calendar day.
    Glacier Bay means all waters inside a line drawn between Point 
Gustavus at 135[deg]54.927' W longitude; 58[deg]22.748' N latitude and 
Point Carolus at 136[deg]2.535' W longitude; 58[deg]22.694' N latitude.
    Motor vessel means any vessel, other than a seaplane, propelled or 
capable of being propelled by machinery (including steam), whether or 
not such machinery is the principal source of power, except a skiff or 
tender under tow or carried on board another vessel.
    Outer waters means all of the non-wilderness marine waters of the 
park located outside of Glacier Bay.
    Passenger ferry means a motor vessel authorized by the 
Superintendent to engage in the transport of passengers for hire to 
Bartlett Cove.
    Private vessel means any motor vessel that is not engaged in 
business (business includes, but is not limited to, transportation of 
passengers for hire or commercial fishing).
    Seasonal vessel quota means the maximum number of vessels allowed, 
by vessel category, during a specific seasonal period.
    Speed through the water means the speed at which a vessel moves 
through the water (which itself may be moving); as distinguished from 
``speed over the ground'' (speed measured in relation to a fixed point 
on the earth).
    Tour vessel means any motor vessel of less than 100 tons gross 
(U.S. System) or 2,000 tons gross (International Convention System) 
engaged in transport of passengers for hire and certificated to carry 
more than 12 passengers overnight or more than 49 passengers for 
daytime use.
    Transit means to operate a motor vessel under power and 
continuously so as to accomplish \1/2\ nautical mile of littoral (i.e., 
along the shore) travel.
    Vessel includes every type or description of craft used as a means 
of transportation on the water, including a buoyant device permitting 
or capable of free flotation and a seaplane while operating on the 
water.
    Whale means any humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
    Whale waters means any portion of Glacier Bay, designated by the 
superintendent, having a high probability of whale occupancy, based 
upon recent sighting and/or past patterns of occurrence.


Sec.  13.1104  Coordinates.

    All coordinates referenced in this subpart use horizontal datum 
World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS 84).

General Provisions


Sec.  13.1110  May I collect or burn interstadial wood?

    Collecting or burning interstadial wood (aged wood preserved in 
glacial deposits) is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1112  May I collect rocks and minerals?

    Collecting rocks and minerals in the former Glacier Bay National 
Monument is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1114  May I collect goat hair?

    The collection of naturally shed goat hair is authorized in 
accordance with terms and conditions established by the Superintendent. 
Violating terms and conditions for collecting goat hair is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1116  Do I need a camping permit in Glacier Bay?

    From May 1 through September 30, camping within Glacier Bay as 
defined by this subpart up to \1/4\ nautical mile (1519 feet) above the 
line of mean high tide without a camping permit is prohibited. The 
Superintendent may establish permit terms and conditions. Failure to 
comply with permit terms and conditions is prohibited.

Bartlett Cove


Sec.  13.1120  Bartlett Cove Developed Area closures and restrictions.

    The Superintendent may prohibit or otherwise restrict activities in 
the Bartlett Cove Developed Area to protect public health, safety, or 
park resources, or to provide for the equitable and orderly use of park 
facilities. Information on closures and restrictions will be available 
at the park visitor information center. Violating Bartlett Cove 
Developed Area closures or restrictions is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1122  Bartlett Cove Public Use Dock.

    (a) Docking, tying down, or securing aircraft is prohibited except 
at the designated aircraft float at the Bartlett Cove Public Use Dock. 
Docking, tying down, or securing aircraft to the Bartlett Cove Public 
Use Dock for longer than 3 hours in a 24-hour period is prohibited. 
Pilots must remain with the aircraft or provide notice of their 
location to a park ranger. Failure to remain with the aircraft or 
provide notice to a park ranger is prohibited.
    (b) Vehicles exceeding 30,000 pounds gross vehicle weight are 
prohibited on the dock, unless authorized by the Superintendent.
    (c) Leaving personal property (other than vessels) unattended on, 
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permission from the Superintendent is prohibited.
    (d) Processing commercially caught fish on the Public Use Dock is 
prohibited.
    (e) The Superintendent may authorize the buying or selling of fish 
or fish products on or at the Public Use Dock. Buying or selling of 
fish or fish products is prohibited on or at the Public Use Dock 
without written permission from the Superintendent.
    (f) Utilizing the fuel dock for activities other than fueling and 
waste pump-out is prohibited. Other uses may be authorized by the 
Superintendent to protect park resources or public safety.
    (g) Leaving a vessel unattended on the fuel dock for any length of 
time is prohibited.
    (h) Using electrical shore power for vessels is prohibited unless 
otherwise authorized by the Superintendent.


Sec.  13.1124  Bartlett Cove Campground.

    (a) Camping is prohibited in the Bartlett Cove Developed Area 
except in the Bartlett Cove Campground. From May 1 through September 
30, all overnight campers must register to camp in the Bartlett Cove 
Campground. Failure to register is prohibited.
    (b) Cooking, consuming, or preparing food in the Bartlett Cove 
Campground is prohibited except in designated areas.
    (c) Food storage. In the Bartlett Cove Developed Area, storing food 
in any manner except in a sealed motor vehicle, a vessel (excluding 
kayaks), a building, an approved bear-resistant food container, a bear-
resistant trash receptacle, or a designated food cache is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1126  Bicycles.

    Use of a bicycle is prohibited on the Forest Loop, Bartlett River 
and Bartlett Lake trails.


Sec.  13.1128  Is a permit required to transport passengers between 
Bartlett Cove and Gustavus?

    Commercial transport of passengers between Bartlett Cove and 
Gustavus by motor vehicles legally licensed to carry 15 or fewer 
passengers is allowed without a permit. However, if required to protect 
public health and safety or park resources, or to provide for the 
equitable use of park facilities, the Superintendent may establish a 
permit requirement with appropriate terms and conditions for the 
transport of passengers. Failure to comply with permit terms and 
conditions is prohibited.

Commercial Fishing


Sec.  13.1130  Is commercial fishing authorized in the marine waters of 
Glacier Bay National Park?

    Yes--Commercial fishing is authorized within the outer waters of 
the park and within the non-wilderness waters of Glacier Bay, subject 
to the provisions of this chapter.
    (a) Commercial fishing shall be administered pursuant to a 
cooperatively developed State/federal park fisheries management plan, 
international conservation and management treaties, and existing 
federal and non-conflicting State law. The management plan shall 
provide for the protection of park values and purposes, the prohibition 
on any new or expanded fisheries, and the opportunity to study marine 
resources.
    (b) Commercial fishing or conducting an associated buying or 
processing operation in wilderness waters is prohibited.
    (c) A new or expanded fishery is prohibited. The Superintendent 
shall compile a list of the existing fisheries and gear types used in 
the outer waters and follow the procedures in Sec. Sec.  1.5 and 1.7 of 
this chapter to inform the public.
    (d) Maps and charts showing which marine areas of Glacier Bay are 
closed to commercial fishing are available from the Superintendent.


Sec.  13.1132  What types of commercial fishing are authorized in 
Glacier Bay?

    Three types of commercial fishing are authorized in Glacier Bay 
non-wilderness waters: Longline fishing for halibut; pot and ring 
fishing for Tanner crab; and trolling for salmon.
    (a) All other commercial fishing, or a buying or a processing 
operation not related to an authorized fishery is prohibited in Glacier 
Bay.
    (b) On October 1, 2000, each fishery will be limited to fishermen 
who qualify for a non-transferable commercial fishing lifetime access 
permit (see Sec.  13.1134). Commercial fishing without a permit issued 
by the superintendent, or other than in accordance with the terms and 
conditions of the permit, is prohibited.
    (c) The Superintendent shall include in a permit the terms and 
conditions that the superintendent deems necessary to protect park 
resources. Violating a term or condition of the permit is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1134  Who is eligible for a Glacier Bay commercial fishing 
lifetime access permit?

    A Glacier Bay commercial fishing lifetime access permit will be 
issued by the superintendent to fishermen who have submitted 
documentation to the superintendent, on or before October 1, 2000, 
which demonstrates to the satisfaction of the superintendent that:
    (a) They possess valid State limited entry commercial fishing 
permits for the district or statistical area encompassing Glacier Bay 
for each fishery for which a lifetime access permit is being sought; 
and,
    (b) They have participated as a limited entry permit holder or 
crewmember in the district or statistical area encompassing Glacier Bay 
for each fishery for which a lifetime access permit is being sought.
    (1) For the Glacier Bay commercial halibut fishery, the applicant 
must have participated as a permit holder or crewmember for at least 2 
years during the period 1992-1998.
    (2) For the Glacier Bay salmon or Tanner crab commercial fisheries, 
the applicant must have participated as a permit holder or crewmember 
for at least 3 years during the period 1989-1998.


Sec.  13.1136  How can an individual apply for a commercial fishing 
lifetime access permit?

    An applicant for a lifetime access permit must provide information 
sufficient to establish eligibility as follows:
    (a) The applicant's full name, date of birth, mailing address and 
phone number;
    (b) A notarized affidavit (required), sworn by the applicant, 
attesting to his or her history of participation as a limited entry 
permit holder or crewmember in Glacier Bay during the qualifying period 
for each fishery for which a lifetime access permit is being sought;
    (c) A copy of the applicant's current State of Alaska limited entry 
permit or, in the case of halibut, an international Pacific Halibut 
Commission quota share (required), that is valid for the area that 
includes Glacier Bay, for each fishery for which a lifetime access 
permit is sought;
    (d) For qualifying years as a limited entry permit holder, 
available corroborating documentation of the applicant's permit and 
quota share history for the Glacier Bay fishery during the qualifying 
period, and/or for qualifying years as a crewmember, other available 
corroborating documentation of crewmember status. This may include a 
copy of the applicant's commercial crewmember license for each 
qualifying year, a notarized affidavit from their employer (generally a 
limited entry permit holder, or boat owner hired or contracted by a 
limited entry permit holder) stating the years worked by the

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applicant in a qualifying fishery in Glacier Bay, copies of tax forms 
W-2 or 1099, pay stubs, or other documentation; and
    (e) For applicants qualifying as a limited entry permit holder, 
available corroborating documentation of commercial landings for the 
Glacier Bay fishery during the qualifying periods--i.e., within the 
statistical unit or area that includes Glacier Bay. For halibut, this 
includes regulatory sub-area 184. For Tanner crab, this includes 
statistical areas 114-70 through 114-77. For salmon, the Superintendent 
may need additional documentation that supports the applicant's 
declaration of Glacier Bay salmon landings. For halibut and Tanner 
crab, the Superintendent may consider documented commercial landings 
from the unit or area immediately adjacent to Glacier Bay (in Icy 
Strait) if additional documentation supports the applicant's 
declaration that landings occurred in Glacier Bay.
    (f) Any additional corroborating documentation that might assist 
the superintendent in a timely determination of eligibility for the 
access permits.


Sec.  13.1138  Where should the documentation for a lifetime access 
permit be sent?

    Before October 1, 2000, all required information (as listed in 
Sec.  13.1136) should be sent to: Superintendent, Attn: Access Permit 
Program, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 140, 
Gustavus, Alaska 99826.


Sec.  13.1140  Who determines eligibility?

    The superintendent will make a written determination of an 
applicant's eligibility for the lifetime access permit based on 
information provided. A copy of the determination will be mailed to the 
applicant. If additional information is required to make an eligibility 
determination, the applicant will be notified in writing of that need 
and be given an opportunity to provide it.


Sec.  13.1142  Can I appeal denial of my commercial fishing lifetime 
access permit application?

    Yes--If an applicant's request for a commercial fishing lifetime 
access permit is denied, the superintendent will provide the applicant 
with the reasons for the denial in writing within 15 days of the 
decision. The applicant may appeal to the Regional Director, Alaska 
Region, within 180 days. The appeal must substantiate the basis of the 
applicant's disagreement with the Superintendent's determination. The 
Regional Director (or his representative) will meet with the applicant 
to discuss the appeal within 30 days of receiving the appeal. Within 15 
days of receipt of written materials and the meeting, if requested, the 
Regional Director will affirm, reverse, or modify the Superintendent's 
determination and explain the reasons for the decision in writing. A 
copy of the decision will be forwarded promptly to the applicant and 
will be the final agency action.


Sec.  13.1144  How often will commercial fishing lifetime access permit 
be renewed?

    The superintendent will renew lifetime access permit at 5-year 
intervals for the lifetime of a permittee who continues to hold a valid 
State limited entry commercial fishing permit, and for halibut an 
International Pacific Halibut Commission quota share, and is otherwise 
eligible to participate in the fishery under Federal and State law.


Sec.  13.1146  What other closures and restrictions apply to commercial 
fishermen and commercial fishing vessels?

    The following are prohibited:
    (a) Commercial fishing in the waters of Geikie, Tarr, Johns Hopkins 
and Reid Inlets.
    (b) Commercial fishing in the waters of the west arm of Glacier Bay 
north of 58[deg] 50.0' N latitude, except commercial fishermen who have 
been authorized by the superintendent to troll for salmon may troll for 
king salmon during the period October 1 through April 30, in compliance 
with state commercial fishing regulations.
    (c) Commercial fishing in the east arm of Glacier Bay, north of an 
imaginary line running from Point Caroline through the southern point 
of Garforth Island and extending to the east side of Muir Inlet, except 
commercial fishermen who have been authorized by the superintendent to 
troll for salmon may troll for king salmon south of 58[deg] 50.0' N 
latitude during the period October 1 through April 30, in compliance 
with state commercial fishing regulations.

Vessel Permits


Sec.  13.1150  Is a permit required for a vessel in Glacier Bay?

    A permit from the superintendent is required for motor vessels in 
accordance with this subpart and applicable regulations in this part.


Sec.  13.1152  Private vessel permits and conditions.

    In Glacier Bay from June 1 through August 31 an individual must 
have a permit from the NPS issued for a specific vessel for a specific 
period of time.
    (a) From June 1 through August 31, when the operator of a private 
vessel enters Glacier Bay for the first time that calendar year, the 
operator must go directly to the Bartlett Cove Ranger Station for 
orientation.
    (b) From May 1 through September 30, the operator of a private 
vessel must immediately notify the Bartlett Cove Ranger Station of the 
vessel's entry to or exit from Glacier Bay.


Sec.  13.1154  Commercial vessel permits and conditions.

    Each commercially operated motor vessel must have a permit to 
operate in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in accordance with 
Sec.  5.3 of this chapter.
    (a) A cruise ship must have a concession contract to operate in 
Glacier Bay.
    (b) A tour vessel, charter vessel, and passenger ferry must have a 
commercial authorization to operate in Glacier Bay.
    (c) The operator of a cruise ship, tour vessel, charter vessel, and 
passenger ferry must notify the Bartlett Cove Ranger Station of the 
vessel's entry into Glacier Bay within 48 hours in advance of entering 
Glacier Bay or immediately upon entry.
    (d) Cruise ships and tour vessels are prohibited from operating in 
the Beardslee Entrance and at the entrance to Adams Inlet, as defined 
as waters within the Wilderness boundaries in those respective areas.
    (e) Off-boat activity from a cruise ship, tour vessel, or charter 
vessel is prohibited, unless authorized by the superintendent.
    (f) Off-boat activity from a passenger ferry is prohibited, except 
for passenger access at the Bartlett Cove docks.
    (g) A passenger ferry must travel a direct course between the mouth 
of Glacier Bay and Bartlett Cove, except when the vessel is granted 
safe harbor by the Superintendent as stated in Sec.  13.1156(e).


Sec.  13.1156  Exceptions from vessel permit requirement.

    A vessel permit is not required in Glacier Bay when:
    (a) A motor vessel is engaged in official, non-commercial business 
of the State or Federal Government;
    (b) A motor vessel is operating in Bartlett Cove waters east of a 
line extending from the long axis of the fuel dock to the wilderness 
boundary of Lester Island;
    (c) One motor vessel is launched from a motor vessel that has a 
permit and only while the authorized motor vessel remains at anchor or 
operated in accordance with a concession agreement from a permitted 
motor vessel while that vessel is not underway;

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    (d) A commercial fishing vessel authorized under this subpart is 
actually engaged in commercial fishing; or
    (e) A vessel is granted safe harbor by the superintendent.


Sec.  13.1158  Prohibitions.

    (a) Operating a motor vessel in Glacier Bay without a required 
permit is prohibited.
    (b) Violating a term or condition of a permit or an operating 
condition or restriction issued or imposed pursuant to this chapter is 
prohibited.
    (c) The superintendent may immediately suspend or revoke a permit 
or deny a future permit request as a result of a violation of a 
provision of this chapter.


Sec.  13.1160  Restrictions on vessel entry.

    The superintendent will allow vessel entry in accordance with the 
following table:

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                                     Daily
                                     vessel     Period covered by     Seasonal vessel
         Type of vessel              quotas            DVQ              quota (SVQ)       Period covered by SVQ
                                     (DVQ)
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Cruise ship.....................            2  Year-round.........  Up to 184..........  June 1-August 31.
                                                                    Up to 122..........  May and September.
Tour vessel.....................            3  Year-round.........  N/A................  N/A.
Charter vessel..................            6  Jun 1-Aug 31.......  N/A................  N/A.
Private vessel..................           25  Jun 1-Aug 31.......  N/A................  N/A.
Passenger ferry.................            1  Year-round.........  N/A................  N/A.
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    Note: Cruise ships and tour vessels are limited to the daily 
vessel quota year-round. Charter and private vessels are not subject 
to quotas from September through May.


    (a) The Director will reduce the vessel quota levels for any or all 
categories of vessels in this subpart as required to protect the values 
and purposes of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The director 
will make these reductions based on the controlling biological opinion 
issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries 
Service under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, applicable 
authority, and any other relevant information.
    (b) The superintendent will annually determine the cruise ship 
quota. This determination will be based upon applicable authorities, 
appropriate public comment and available scientific and other 
information. The number will be subject to the maximum daily vessel 
quota of two vessels.
    (c) From June 1 through August 31, the superintendent will 
designate one private vessel permit from the daily quota of 25 as a 
transit permit. This transit permit may be used only to directly exit 
Glacier Bay from Bartlett Cove and return directly to Bartlett Cove. 
The superintendent may establish application procedures and operating 
conditions. Violating operating conditions is prohibited. This 
paragraph will cease to have effect on November 30, 2011.
    (d) Nothing in this section will be construed to prevent the 
superintendent from taking any action at any time to protect the values 
and purposes of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Vessel Operating Restrictions


Sec.  13.1170  What are the rules for operating vessels?

    (a) Operating a vessel within 1/4 nautical mile of a whale is 
prohibited, except for a commercial fishing vessel authorized under 
this subpart that is actively trolling, setting, or pulling long lines, 
or setting or pulling crab pots.
    (b) The operator of a vessel inadvertently positioned within 1/4 
nautical mile of a whale must immediately slow the vessel to ten knots 
or less, without shifting into reverse unless impact is likely. The 
operator must direct or maintain the vessel on as steady a course as 
possible away from the whale until at least 1/4 nautical mile of 
separation is established. Failure to take such action is prohibited.
    (c) The operator of a vessel or seaplane positioned within 1/2 
nautical mile of a whale is prohibited from altering course or speed in 
a manner that results in decreasing the distance between the whale and 
the vessel or seaplane.


Sec.  13.1172  When general operating restrictions do not apply.

    Section 13.1170 does not apply to a vessel being used in connection 
with federally permitted whale research or monitoring; other closures 
and restrictions in ``Vessel Operating Restrictions,'' Sec. Sec.  
13.1170 through 13.1180, do not apply to authorized persons conducting 
emergency or law enforcement operations, research or resource 
management, park administration/supply, or other necessary patrols.


Sec.  13.1174  Whale water restrictions.

    (a) May 15 through September 30, the following waters are 
designated as whale waters.
    (1) Waters north of a line drawn from Point Carolus to Point 
Gustavus; and south of a line drawn from the northernmost point of Lars 
Island across the northernmost point of Strawberry Island to the point 
where it intersects the line that defines the Beardslee Island group, 
as described in Sec.  13.1180(a)(4), and following that line south and 
west to the Bartlett Cove shore (so as to include the Beardslee 
Entrance and Bartlett Cove); and
    (2) Other waters designated by the superintendent as temporary 
whale waters.
    (b) The public will be notified of other waters designated as 
temporary whale waters in accordance with Sec.  1.7 of this chapter.
    (c) Violation of a whale water restriction is prohibited. The 
following restrictions apply in whale waters unless otherwise provided 
by the superintendent in the designation:
    (1) Operating a motor vessel less than one nautical mile from shore 
(where the width of the water permits), or in narrower areas navigating 
outside of mid-channel is prohibited. This restriction does not apply 
to motor vessels less than 18 feet in length, or vessels actively 
engaged in fishing activities or operating solely under sail.
    (2) Unless other restrictions apply, operators may perpendicularly 
approach or land on shore (i.e., by the most direct line to shore) 
through designated whale waters, but they may not transit along the 
shore.
    (3) Operators must follow motor vessel speed limits in Sec.  
13.1176(a).

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Sec.  13.1176  Speed restrictions.

    (a) From May 15 through September 30, in designated whale waters 
the following are prohibited:
    (1) Operating a motor vessel at more than 20 knots speed through 
the water; or
    (2) Operating a motor vessel at more than 13 knots speed through 
the water, when the superintendent has designated a maximum speed of 13 
knots, or at a maximum speed designated by the superintendent based on 
NOAA guidelines or new scientific information.
    (b) From July 1 through August 31, operating a motor vessel on 
Johns Hopkins Inlet waters south of 58[deg]54.2' N latitude (a line 
running due west from Jaw Point) at more than 10 knots speed through 
the water is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1178  Closed waters, islands and other areas.

    The following are prohibited:
    (a) Operating a vessel or otherwise approaching within 100 yards of 
South Marble Island; or Flapjack Island; or any of the three small 
unnamed islets approximately one nautical mile southeast of Flapjack 
Island; or Eider Island; or Boulder Island; or Geikie Rock; or Lone 
Island; or the northern three-fourths of Leland Island (north of 
58[deg]39.1' N latitude); or any of the four small unnamed islands 
located approximately one nautical mile north (one island), and 1.5 
nautical miles east (three islands) of the easternmost point of Russell 
Island; or Graves Rocks (on the outer coast); or Cormorant Rock, or any 
adjacent rock, including all of the near-shore rocks located along the 
outer coast, for a distance of 1\1/2\ nautical miles, southeast from 
the mouth of Lituya Bay; or the surf line along the outer coast, for a 
distance of 1\1/2\ nautical miles northwest of the mouth of the glacial 
river at Cape Fairweather.
    (b) Operating a vessel or otherwise approaching within 100 yards of 
a Steller (northern) sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) hauled-out on land 
or a rock or a nesting seabird colony: Provided, however, that vessels 
may approach within 50 yards of that part of South Marble Island lying 
south of 58[deg]38.6' N latitude (approximately the southern one-half 
of South Marble Island) to view seabirds.
    (c) May 1 through August 31, operating a vessel, or otherwise 
approaching within \1/4\ nautical mile of, Spider Island or any of the 
four small islets lying immediately west of Spider Island.
    (d) May 1 through August 31, operating a cruise ship on Johns 
Hopkins Inlet waters south of 58[deg]54.2' N latitude (an imaginary 
line running approximately due west from Jaw Point).
    (e) May 1 through June 30, operating a vessel or a seaplane on 
Johns Hopkins Inlet waters south of 58[deg]54.2' N latitude (an 
imaginary line running approximately due west from Jaw Point).
    (f) July 1 through August 31, operating a vessel or a seaplane on 
Johns Hopkins Inlet waters south of 58[deg]54.2' N latitude (an 
imaginary line running approximately due west from Jaw Point), within 
\1/4\ nautical mile of a seal hauled out on ice; except when safe 
navigation requires, and then with due care to maintain the \1/4\ 
nautical mile distance from concentrations of seals.
    (g) Restrictions imposed in this section are minimum distances. 
Park visitors are advised that protection of park wildlife may require 
that visitors maintain greater distances from wildlife. See, 36 CFR 2.2 
(Wildlife protection).


Sec.  13.1180  Closed waters, motor vessels and seaplanes.

    (a) May 1 through September 15, operating a motor vessel or a 
seaplane on the following water is prohibited:
    (1) Adams Inlet, east of 135[deg]59.2' W longitude (an imaginary 
line running approximately due north and south through the charted (5) 
obstruction located approximately 2\1/4\ nautical miles east of Pt. 
George).
    (2) Rendu Inlet, north of the wilderness boundary at the mouth of 
the inlet.
    (3) Hugh Miller complex, including Scidmore Bay and Charpentier 
Inlet, west of the wilderness boundary at the mouth of the Hugh Miller 
Inlet.
    (4) Waters within the Beardslee Island group (except the Beardslee 
Entrance), that is defined by an imaginary line running due west from 
shore to the easternmost point of Lester Island, then along the south 
shore of Lester Island to its western end, then to the southernmost 
point of Young Island, then north along the west shore and east along 
the north shore of Young Island to its northernmost point, then at a 
bearing of 15 true to an imaginary point located one nautical mile due 
east of the easternmost point of Strawberry Island, then at a bearing 
of 345 true to the northernmost point of Flapjack Island, then at a 
bearing of 81 true to the northernmost point of the unnamed island 
immediately to the east of Flapjack Island, then southeasterly to the 
northernmost point of the next unnamed island, then southeasterly along 
the (Beartrack Cove) shore of that island to its easternmost point, 
then due east to shore.
    (b) June 1 through July 15, operating a motor vessel or a seaplane 
on the waters of Muir Inlet north of 59[deg]02.7' N latitude (an 
imaginary line running approximately due west from the point of land on 
the east shore approximately 1 nautical mile north of the McBride 
Glacier) is prohibited.
    (c) July 16 through August 31, operating a motor vessel or a 
seaplane on the waters of Wachusett Inlet west of 136[deg]12.0' W 
longitude (an imaginary line running approximately due north from the 
point of land on the south shore of Wachusett Inlet approximately 2\1/
4\ nautical miles west of Rowlee Point) is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1182  Noise restrictions.

    June 1 through August 31, except on vessels in transit or as 
otherwise authorized by the superintendent, the use of generators or 
other non-propulsive motors (except a windlass) is prohibited from 10 
p.m. until 6 a.m. in Reid Inlet, Blue Mouse Cove and North Sandy Cove.


Sec.  13.1184  Other restrictions on vessels.

    The superintendent will make rules for the safe and equitable use 
of Bartlett Cove waters and for park docks. The superintendent will 
notify the public of these rules by posting of a sign or a copy of them 
at the dock. Failure to obey a sign or posted rule is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1186  What are the emission standards for vessels?

    (a) The State of Alaska statutes and regulations applicable to 
marine vessel emission standards are adopted as a part of these 
regulations.
    (b) Violating a State of Alaska statute or regulation applicable to 
marine vessel visible emission standards is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1188  Where to get charts depicting closed waters.

    Closed waters and islands within Glacier Bay as described in 
Sec. Sec.  13.1174-13.1180 of this subpart are described as depicted on 
NOAA Chart 17318 GLACIER BAY (4th Ed., Mar. 6/93) available to 
the public at park offices at Bartlett Cove and Juneau, Alaska.

Subpart O--Special Regulations--Katmai National Park and Preserve

General Provisions


Sec.  13.1202  Fishing.

    Fishing is allowed in accordance with Sec.  13.40 of this chapter, 
but only with artificial lures and with the following additional 
exceptions:
    (a) Bait, as defined by State law, may be used only on the Naknek 
River during times and dates established by

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the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and only from markers located 
just above Trefon's cabin downstream to the park boundary.
    (b) Flyfishing only is allowed on the Brooks River between Brooks 
Lake and the posted signs near Brooks Camp.
    (c) No person may retain more than one fish per day caught on 
Brooks River, on the waters between the posted signs 200 yards from the 
outlet of Brooks Lake, or on the water between the posted signs 200 
yards from the mouth of the Brooks River on Naknek Lake.


Sec.  13.1204  Traditional red fish fishery.

    Local residents who are descendants of Katmai residents who lived 
in the Naknek Lake and River Drainage will be authorized, in accordance 
with State fishing regulations or conditions established by the 
Superintendent, to continue their traditional fishery for red fish 
(spawned-out sockeye salmon that have no significant commercial value).


Sec.  13.1206  Wildlife distance conditions.

    (a) Approaching a bear or any large mammal within 50 yards is 
prohibited.
    (b) Continuing to occupy a position within 50 yards of a bear that 
is using a concentrated food source, including, but not limited to, 
animal carcasses, spawning salmon, and other feeding areas is 
prohibited.
    (c) The prohibitions in this section do not apply to persons--
    (1) Engaged in a legal hunt;
    (2) On a designated bear viewing structure;
    (3) In compliance with a written protocol approved by the 
Superintendent; or
    (4) Who are otherwise directed by a park employee.


Sec.  13.1208  Lake Camp.

    Leaving a boat, trailer, or vehicle unattended for more than 72 
hours at the facilities associated with the Lake Camp launching ramp is 
prohibited without authorization from the Superintendent. Leaving a 
boat unattended at the Lake Camp dock is prohibited.

Brooks Camp Developed Area


Sec.  13.1220  Brooks Camp Developed Area definition.

    For purposes of this subpart, the Brooks Camp Developed Area (BCDA) 
means all park areas within a 1.5 mile radius from the Brooks Falls 
Platform and is depicted on a map available at the park visitor center. 
Sections 13.1222-13.2240 of this subpart apply from May 1 through 
October 31 unless stated otherwise.


Sec.  13.1222  Camping.

    (a) Camping is prohibited in all areas of the BCDA except within 
the Brooks Camp Campground and other designated areas.
    (b) Camping in Brooks Camp Campground for more than a total of 7 
nights during the month of July is prohibited.
    (c) Exceeding a group size limit of 6 persons per site in the 
Brooks Camp Campground while in operation as a designated fee area is 
prohibited.


Sec.  13.1224  Visiting hours.

    The Falls and Riffles bear viewing platforms and boardwalks are 
closed from 10 pm to 7 am from June 15 through August 15. Entering or 
going upon these platforms and boardwalks during these hours is 
prohibited.


Sec.  13.1226  Brooks Falls area.

    The area within 50 yards of the ordinary high water marks of the 
Brooks River from the Riffles Bear Viewing Platform to a point 100 
yards above Brooks Falls is closed to entry from June 15 through August 
15, unless authorized by the Superintendent. The Superintendent may 
designate a route to transit through the closed area.


Sec.  13.1228  Food storage.

    In the BCDA, all fish must be stored in designated facilities and 
in accordance with conditions established by the Superintendent. 
Storing fish in any other manner is prohibited. Employees may store 
fish in employee residences.


Sec.  13.1230  Campfires.

    Lighting or maintaining a fire is prohibited except in established 
receptacles in the BCDA.


Sec.  13.1232  Sanitation.

    Within the BCDA, washing dishes or cooking utensils at locations 
other than the water spigot near the food cache in the Brooks 
Campground or other designated areas is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1234  Pets.

    Possessing a pet in the BCDA is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1236  Bear orientation.

    All persons visiting the BCDA must receive an NPS-approved Bear 
Orientation. Failure to receive an NPS-approved Bear Orientation is 
prohibited.


Sec.  13.1238  Picnicking.

    Within the BCDA, picnicking in locations other than the Brooks Camp 
Visitor Center picnic area, Brooks Campground, Brooks Lake Picnic Area, 
and a site designated in the employee housing area is prohibited. Food 
consumption or possession while at the Brooks River is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1240  Unattended property.

    Leaving property, other than motorboats and planes, unattended for 
any length of time within the BCDA is prohibited, except at the Brooks 
Lodge Porch, Brooks Campground, or designated equipment caches as 
posted at the Brooks Camp Visitor Center.


Sec.  13.1242  BCDA closures and restrictions.

    The Superintendent may prohibit or otherwise restrict activities in 
the BCDA to protect public health and safety or park resources. 
Information on BCDA closures and restrictions will be available for 
inspection at the park visitor center. Violating BCDA closures or 
restrictions is prohibited.

Subpart P--Special Regulations--Kenai Fjords National Park


Sec.  13.1302  Subsistence.

    Subsistence uses are prohibited in, and the provisions of Subpart F 
of this part shall not apply to, Kenai Fjords National Park.


Sec.  13.1304  Exit Glacier.

    (a) Except for areas designated by the Superintendent, climbing or 
walking on, in, or under Exit Glacier is prohibited within \1/2\ mile 
of the glacial terminus from May 1 through October 31, and during other 
periods as determined by the Superintendent. Restrictions and 
exceptions will be available for inspection at the park visitor center, 
on bulletin boards or signs, or by other appropriate means.
    (b) Entering an ice fall hazard zone is prohibited. These zones 
will be designated with signs, fences, rope barriers, or similar 
devices.


Sec.  13.1306  Public use cabins.

    (a) Camping within 500 feet of the North Arm or Holgate public use 
cabin is prohibited except by the cabin permit holder on a designated 
tent site, or as otherwise authorized by the Superintendent.
    (b) Camping within the 5-acre NPS-leased parcel surrounding the 
Aialik public use cabin is prohibited except by the cabin permit holder 
on a designated tent site, or as otherwise authorized by the 
Superintendent.
    (c) Lighting or maintaining a fire within 500 feet of the North Arm 
or Holgate public use cabins is prohibited except by the cabin permit 
holder in NPS established receptacles, or as otherwise authorized by 
the Superintendent.

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    (d) Lighting or maintaining a fire within the 5-acre NPS-leased 
parcel surrounding the Aialik public use cabin is prohibited except by 
the cabin permit holder in NPS-established receptacles, or as otherwise 
authorized by the Superintendent.

Subpart Q--Special Regulations--Klondike Gold Rush National 
Historical Park


Sec.  13.1402  Camping.

    (a) Camping is permitted only in designated areas.
    (b) Camping without a permit is prohibited. The Superintendent may 
establish permit terms and conditions. Failure to comply with permit 
terms and conditions is prohibited.
    (c) Camping at Dyea campground more than 14 days in a calendar year 
is prohibited.


Sec.  13.1404  Preservation of natural, cultural, and archaeological 
resources.

    The Superintendent may allow the gathering of mushrooms in 
accordance with Sec.  2.1(c) of this chapter.


Sec.  13.1406  State lands.

    The National Park Service administers certain state-owned lands and 
waters within the boundary of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical 
Park under a memorandum of understanding with the State of Alaska. The 
prohibition on carrying, possession, and use of weapons, traps, and 
nets in this chapter does not apply to the lawful taking of wildlife on 
these State-owned lands and waters.

Subpart R--Special Regulations--Kobuk Valley National Park


Sec.  13.1502  Subsistence resident zone.

    The following area is included within the resident zone for Kobuk 
Valley National Park: The NANA Region.


Sec.  13.1504  Customary trade.

    In addition to the exchange of furs for cash, ``customary trade'' 
in Kobuk Valley National Park shall include the selling of handicraft 
articles made from plant material taken by local rural residents of the 
park area.

Subpart S--Special Regulations--Lake Clark National Park and 
Preserve


Sec.  13.1602  Subsistence resident zone.

    The following communities and areas are included within the 
resident zone for Lake Clark National Park: Iliamna, Lime Village, 
Newhalen, Nondalton, Pedro Bay, and Port Alsworth.

Subpart T--Special Regulations--Noatak National Preserve [Reserved]

Subpart U--Special Regulations--Sitka National Historical Park


Sec.  13.1802  Prohibited activities.

    The following activities are prohibited in Sitka National 
Historical Park--
    (a) Camping.
    (b) Riding a bicycle, except in the public parking areas and on 
routes designated by the Superintendent. Routes may only be designated 
for bicycle use based on a written determination that such use is 
consistent with the purposes for which the park was established.
    (c) The use of roller skates, skateboards, roller skis, in-line 
skates, and other similar devices.

Subpart V--Special Regulations--Wrangell-St. Elias National Park 
and Preserve


Sec.  13.1902  Subsistence.

    (a) Subsistence resident zone communities. The following 
communities and areas are included within the resident zone for 
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Chisana, Chistochina, Chitina, Copper 
Center, Dot Lake, Gakona, Gakona Junction, Glennallen, Gulkana, Healy 
Lake, Kenny Lake, Lower Tonsina, McCarthy, Mentasta Lake, Nabesna, 
Northway/Northway Village/Northway Junction, Slana, Tanacross, Tazlina, 
Tetlin, Tok, Tonsina, and Yakutat.
    (b) Subsistence resident zone boundaries. Boundaries for 
communities and areas added to the park resident zone will be 
determined by the Superintendent after consultation with the affected 
area or community. If the Superintendent and community are not able to 
agree on a boundary within two years, the boundary of the area or 
community added will be the boundary of the Census Designated Place, or 
other area designation, used by the Alaska Department of Labor for 
census purposes for that community or area. Copies of the boundary map 
will be available in the park headquarters office.
    (c) Subsistence aircraft exemption. In extraordinary cases where no 
reasonable alternative exists local rural residents who permanently 
reside in the following exempted community(ies) may use aircraft for 
access to lands and waters within the park for subsistence purposes in 
accordance with a permit issued by the Superintendent: Yakutat (for 
access to the Malaspina Forelands Area only).


Sec.  13.1904  Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark (KNHL).

    A map showing the boundaries of the KNHL is available at the park 
visitor center. The following activities are prohibited within the 
KNHL--
    (a) Entering closed structures or passing beyond barricades;
    (b) Entering mine tunnels and other mine openings;
    (c) Camping in or on any historic structure; and
    (d) Camping within the mill site of the KNHL. The mill site 
consists of the collection of buildings clustered around the mill 
building on both sides of National Creek. For purposes of this subpart, 
the mill site is the area bounded by Bonanza Creek to the north, the 
Kennicott Glacier to the west, the 2,200 foot contour line to the east, 
and Sweet Creek to the south. The mill site is depicted on a map 
available at the park visitor center; and
    (e) Lighting or maintaining a fire within the mill site as defined 
in paragraph (d) of this section.


Sec.  13.1906  Headquarters/Visitor Center Developed Area (HVCDA).

    For purposes of this subpart, the HVCDA consists of all park areas 
within a \1/2\ mile radius of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and 
Preserve Headquarters building, other than the Valdez Trail. The 
following activities are prohibited within the HVCDA:
    (a) Lighting or maintaining a fire;
    (b) Camping;
    (c) Entering the area after visiting hours (visiting hours will be 
posted at the entrance gate).


Sec.  13.1908  Slana Developed Area (SDA).

    For purposes of this subpart, the Slana Developed Area consists of 
all park areas within a \1/4\ mile radius of the Slana Ranger Station.


Sec.  13.1910  KNHL and developed area closures and restrictions.

    The Superintendent may prohibit or otherwise restrict activities in 
the KNHL, Headquarters/Visitor Center Developed Area, and Slana 
Developed Area to protect public health and safety or park resources. 
Information on closures and restrictions will be available at the park 
visitor center. Violating these closures or restrictions is prohibited. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of this subpart, the Superintendent may 
issue a Special Use Permit to authorize uses in the KNHL and either 
developed area.

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Subpart W--Special Regulations--Yukon Charley Rivers National 
Preserve [Reserved]

    Dated: November 17, 2006.
David M. Verhey,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
 [FR Doc. E6-19968 Filed 11-29-06; 8:45 am]
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