(SitNews) Anchorage, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued patents yesterday for just over 379,758 acres.

The Bureau of Land Management-Alaska surveys and conveys lands in Alaska mainly under three statutes: the Native Allotment Act of 1906; the Alaska Statehood Act, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The work being done to implement these laws is collectively called the Alaska Land Transfer Program.

When completed, over 150 million acres, approximately 42% of the land area in Alaska, will have been transferred from federal to state and private ownership.

BLM-Alaska State Director Bud Cribley said, “BLM-Alaska is committed to the efficient transfer of lands in order to complete the land transfer program in Alaska.”

The Bureau of Land Management-Alaska transferred these lands out of the public domain under the provisions of the Alaska Statehood Act and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).

Patents issued Friday included:

• 182,289.98 acres to the State of Alaska east of the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska;
• 127,549.47 acres to Kugkaktlik Limited, the ANCSA corporation for the village of Kipnuk in the vicinity of Kuskokwim Bay;
• 60,670.33 acres to NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. in northwest Alaska;
• 9,248.52 acres to The Kuskokwim Corporation south of the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska.

Edited By Mary Kauffman, SitNews

Source of News: 

Bureau of Land Management - Alaska
www.blm.gov

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