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2024 Interior Dec. (IBLA) 198 IBLA 218 (2024)

handle is hein.amindian/ibla2024 and id is 1 raw text is: ~NT OPUnited States Department of the Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals Interior Board of Land Appeals 801 N. Quincy Street, Suite 300 Arlington, VA 22203 (703) 235-3750 ibla@oha~doi~gov STATE OF ALASKA (ON JUDICIAL REMAND) IBLA 2016-0109 & 2017-0055 Decided April 2, 2024 Remand of the Board's Decision in State of Alaska, 196 IBLA 155 (2020), which resolved appeals from two decisions of the Alaska State Office, Bureau of Land Management, denying the State of Alaska's request for priority conveyance of lands in six townships selected pursuant to the Alaska Statehood Act and denying the State of Alaska's protest to the official filing of a survey plat for a seventh township containing selected lands. AKF-31832, et al. Decision Modified in Part, Affirmed in Part. APPEARANCES: Treg R. Taylor, Esq., Ronald W. Opsahl, Esq., Office of the Attorney General, Anchorage, Alaska, for the State of Alaska; Kathleen C. Schroder, Esq., Gail L. Wurtzler, Esq., Mark E. Champoux, Esq., Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, Denver, Colorado, for the State of Alaska; Nicholas Moore, Esq., Mike Gieryic, Esq., Office of the Regional Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, Anchorage, Alaska, for the Bureau of Land Management. OPINION BY ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE BALLENGER1 The State of Alaska (State) brought these two consolidated appeals challenging actions of the Bureau of Land Management's Alaska State Office (BLM) related to the identification of the northwestern boundary of the Arctic National Wildlife Range (ANWR),2 aS defined in Public Land Order (PLO) 2214 and related documents. The Board affirmed BLM's decisions in State ofAlaska, 196 IBLA 155 (2020) (Decision), 1 Administrative Judge Haugrud took no part in the consideration or decision of these appeals. 2 See State of Alaska, 196 IBLA 155, 155 n.2 (2020) (explaining that, while the area at issue has been renamed several times, the naming distinction is not relevant to the issues on appeal, so for simplicity ANWR will be used to refer to the area consistently over time). The Decision can be found in the Administrative Record (AR) at AR 000006-57, though we will cite to the Board's published version. Citations throughout to the AR are to the Bates-numbered AR submitted in State of Alaska v. United States Dep't of the Interior, Case No. 3-22-cv-00078-SLG. 198 IBLA 218

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