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B-177579 1 (1973-08-21)

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     1-177579                                August 21, 1973
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     rdso Carol S, fowors
     Authorized Certifying Officor
     bureau of Land anacriont
     United States Departint of the Interior
     Denvor Federal Center, Building 50
     Ponvor, Colorado 80225

     Dear Maos lowers;

          In vlcie of the corraopondoncq from the CO-Counsel of the Federal-
     State Land line P1anning Corniaooni  For Alazlwa dated April 30 and June x12,
     1973, cvpioa of wihich are unclosed, wil hav reviewed the iecicion of this
     Office to you, U-177579, dated April 6, 1973, regnrdiut the entitlo.nent
     of the lHonorable Georjo Soullivnn, ZVayor o Anchoroae, to co;nonantioa for
     ocrvices rendoradby hin au a uamber of the rederal-State Land Usa Plan-
     ning CuLeoiion for Alaska.

          Tho quontion of liayor Sullivan'a ontitlnont to compensation turns
     upon the lIttorprctntion of subsection 17(n) (4) (1) of the Alaska lHative
     Claims lkttlctent Act, Public Low 92-203, O) ,Star. 688, enacted Deneber ifS,
     1971, thich rovidio in part as followas

         Any no:ibcr of tho Planning Co-.ndwssion ivho Is destrmnted or
         appoJnted fron the Government of the United Staten or fo3
         the Covorarnrmt of the 5.ntn shall s-erve wiithout co:ipunnation
         in n.1it1in to thot receivod in his roular wploy:ir.t. * A*
         (Euplhnis added,)

         In our prior deciston, we took the position that the undarlined phrase
     in the above quota inaludes prnaron connucted with the Statea's political
     subdivisions and thun that Mayor Sullivan, as an employee of the City of
     Anchorage, a political entity within tho State of Alaska, wan not entitled
     to receiva conponsation for his norvice na a monbdr of the Plannins
     Corssion,

          In bl lattar of April 30 thu Co-Counsol of the Planninn Cominsion
     takes the position that any enbinuity in the phrase fron the Government
     of the State should bo resolved by an intorpretation vhich is nonsiatent
     with the intorprotation  i¢on the praceding phenaa, from the Government
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